Chapter 6,7,8,9 are all connected
Healthy Cognitive change
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-Information Processing Model has 3 Assumptions:
-1.People are active participants: hunting for information, we have a goal (any
task) that we get to by using information processing. This is imp
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Boldly indicate callsign, and dependent measure!
Three different auditory channels; must selectively to one of the sounds.
Participants are cued to listen to a specific channel (ex. Charlie) before
listening. How well can people identify the target word
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-older people just need optimized conditions to increase performance
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-Episodic memory: personal story/experiences, how do you perceive stories
(reading/listening comprehension)
-There are going to be age differences unless if you give people the conte
-Final exam: one question ahead of time, no right or wrong answer
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-Three different personality levels
-1) ask people about personality and how would you rate yourself and usually
have different scales
-Personal concerns: depends on what happened to you,
Test next week
-Social judgements about what other people do
-What can change with aging? The different kinds of aging: Normative
(general/universal including biological changes), Historical (cohort),
Idiosyncratic (personal)
-Things are Multidimensional:
PSY213: March 6th 2012
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Test: 2/3 MCQ, 1/3 Short Answer (Same format)
No graph this time, facts
Week 6 Graph (above)
Young and old adults listening to discourse and then answer comprehension
questions, some were facts and some about the theme (retention:
Id like to thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. Its a pleasure for
me to be back at the University of Waterloo, because I spent many years here
doing both my undergraduate and masters degrees and it was at Waterloo that
I really found my pa
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-Study needs to be an original research not something that is already summarized
-To avoid Plagiarism take info from memory, copy and paste lead to grammatical error
-Title
-Abstract (*structured*exam?)
-Introduction : past studies, set up why this stud
Mcq from text book
10 from each chapter
Definition of terms/comparison of terms
Graph that you have seen in class
Examples: think about the material
More text book and then blue zones
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Long-term care (pick it up and blend with theories, didnt finish last
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-Long-term care/ nursing home = best option for individuals need more help
than they can get by themselves or with family.
-Dementia = high likelihood of having other diseases = accumulation of illness.
-Majority of hearing loss over 75
-1 of 5 over 85
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-How?
-Chronological age and biological development (in early ages eg.
puberty)
-Which generation do you belong to?-cohort: people can also be
defined by technology
-How old do you feel?: important for social psychology
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How are they dressed: dre
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The World Health Organization was formed April 7, 1948, and this definition is a part of the WHO
Constitution.
WHO definition of Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infi
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-Assume there is a biological age limit (120), and avg life expectancy (80)
-So we want to make 80 bigger and live closer to 120, how do we do this?
-Top 3: Cardiovascular(fat deposit, stiff muscles), Cancer and Chronic lower:
Overall increase
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-Graph
-Assignment 2
-Empirical paper: paper cited in book/powerpoints can also be used
-What kind of data was analyzed, the question, what method was used?
-Peer reviewed (APA journal?)
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-Some changes in gender differenced same to hormonal changes such as
meno
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There are now going to be more elder people: a) people in general live
longer
b) baby boomers so
there is more possibility for people to live longer.
Stats Canada:
-Shows that over a 40 year difference there is a great difference in
demographics
-1966
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- Friendships based on emotional, shared fun (eg bowling)
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-Socio-emotional selectively (Carstenson): change due to the time you have
left: efficiency
-Chapter 5: COS (Baltes): select high quality relationships if you didnt have
resources to have quant
Assignment: Age not a variable it should be main
Today: Mental Health and Clinical Health: Apply it generally
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Our job is to help people with the problem
-Screening: Detect who has the problem, this is usually done with big groups,
its quick, fast and ch
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Other countries would live longer but not a big difference
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-Interview, Questionnaire, Gather Information from other people, Actual tests
that we get numerical data from, Observation, or use many of them
-Triangulation: use many different sources and
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-Continuous vs stages
-Beginning of independence
-Work=money=independence=personal identity being shaped
-Stressful transitions even if options are available
-Well suited to job (interest and skill match to job: what you are good at
and what you have a
