Exam 6: Basic Cognitive Functions: Information Processing, Attention, and Memory

Brinley plots are used to understand which type of cognitive performance?

Why might training not be as effective as you might expect on the accident rates of older drivers?

Through the role of the hormone IGF-1, having _______________ may place older adults at risk of cognitive decline.

Do you agree that videogames can improve cognitive functioning?

Researchers have established that when older adults are given an _______ memory test, or one in which they don't know they're being tested, they perform as well as young adults.

Explain how you think that identity assimilation and identity accommodation relate to cognitive processes. What treatment strategies would you devise for people who are having difficulty with their memories in part due to these aspects of identity processes?

Research on videogame training in young adults shows that these games have the effect of improving:

Training older adults to use "deep processing" to encode information more fully would involve having them follow which procedure?

The model of self-regulation and driving predicts that an older adult will continue to drive depends on the psychological factor(s) of:

How do findings on identity, self-efficacy, control beliefs, and stereotype threat influence your interpretation of the effects of aging on working memory? Argue for or against the position that age differences in memory are an artifact of methods used to assess memory.

A factor in the driving behavior of older adults is that, compared to younger adults, they are more likely to:

Older adults do relatively more poorly than younger adults on conjunction vs. simple search tasks, because conjunction tasks rely on ____________ processing.

The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task demonstrated that older adults are vulnerable to false memories as shown by a test of:

Older adults who have a low sense of memory ________________, the feeling that they cannot perform well on a memory test, are likely to have poorer scores when their memory is actually tested.

Data from studies measuring the brain's electrical activation to stimuli, also known as _______________, show that older adults are less able to inhibit irrelevant information.

Vocabulary, factual information, and historical knowledge fall into the category of ____________ memory, a process not affected by aging.

In an n-back task, used to assess working memory, participants are asked to:

The ability to respond to stimuli in the periphery, relevant to the driving skills of older adults, is called:

Unlike younger adults, neither middle-aged nor older individuals show a benefit to memory of having a greater amount of _______ sleep:

The view that older adults have difficulty allocating enough of their mental focus to cognitive operations is consistent with the _____________ theory of aging.