6. Ageing

Question 1

Cognitive changes associated with ageing –
_________ slowing is an increase in the time required for processing and acting on information.
__________ memory capacity declines; __________ memory retrieval becomes more difficult; _________ solving strategies become less efficient; and ________ intelligence declines. Other functions show little or no noticeable decline, including many encoding processes, implicit memory, aspects of everyday memory and crystallised intelligence.

Answer 1

Psychomotor 
Working
Explicit 
Problem
Fluid

Question 2

People show tremendous variability in the way their minds change with _____. About 1% of the Australian population suffers from progressive and incurable dementia, a disorder marked by global disturbance of higher mental functions. The most common cause of the major is Alzheimer’s disease.

Answer 2

Ageing

Question 3

A progressive and incurable illness that destroys in neurons in the brain, severely impairing memory, reasoning, perception, language and behaviour.
Low levels of acetylcholine.

Answer 3

Alzheimer’s disease