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

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

Memory controllability and identity Older adults who have a low sense of memory controllability because they believe that memory decline is inevitable can also be thought of as high in:

Older pilots compared to older drivers The model of self-regulation and driving predicts that an older adult will continue to drive depends on the psychological factors of:

Procedural memory motor task Both older adults and older monkeys showed that they could remember over a 2-year period how to perform a task involving ____________ memory,in which they slid a small metal nut off a rod.

Sustained attention- choice Tasks that require the individual to watch out for the appearance of a target and respond only when they see it,make demands on ________________ attention and appear to be more difficult for older individuals.

Cognition and omega-3 Older adults who eat a diet that includes food rich in ____________ are likely to experience some cognitive benefits.

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

Default network While you are at rest,the brain's ____________ is at work,processing information that you generate internally.

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

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

Stress and memory Research examining the relationship between memory and stress found that people who experience daily stresses,regardless of age,also are likely to:

General Slowing Hypothesis- stem The General Slowing Hypothesis proposes that older adults become slower primarily because of:

ACTIVE The type of training most effective in the ACTIVE study involved which type of cognitive ability?

Age complexity hypothesis- choice The ______________ hypothesis proposes that older adults are disproportionately slower on tasks that are more difficult.

Cellphones and driving As pointed out in "Aging Today," compared to eating,fixing the radio,or adjusting the GPS while driving,cellphone use is ______ dangerous:

Reminiescence bump- stem According to research on the reminiscence bump,older adults should remember the most from:

Scaffolding theory- choice The view known as _____________ theory proposes that older adults use different neural circuits depending on task demands to make up for the losses that they suffer elsewhere in the brain.

Default network The brain's default network,which processes internally-generated stimuli,includes which structure?

Simple search tasks and parallel processing On simple search tasks,where targets stand out relatively easily from distractors,older adults perform at high levels,because these tasks require:

Source memory failure Mixing up who said what in a conversation that happened in the past is an instance of ___________ memory failure,a problem that affects older more than younger adults.