Adolescence

Question 1

Mild to Borderline intellectual disability

Answer 1

IQ below 80. Can’t see anything from the outside. Difficulty in school/society. Flanker task: Attend to central arrow. Incongruent stimuli is hard for MBID

Question 2

Face recognition

Answer 2

Encoding switch hypothesis: Young children focus on features to remember faces, above 10 start to focus on lay out; configural processing.

Question 3

Short term memory

Answer 3

Capacity to reproduce recent info. Forward digit span. Due to development AND different coding (eg categorical)

Question 4

Working memory

Answer 4

Remember and process information. Backward digit span. DLPFC increase. ADHD have reduced working memory. Predictive of self-control and studying

Question 5

Long term memory

Answer 5

Storing and retrieving information.

Question 6

Correlation of IQ s core and age

Answer 6

Correlation between 11 and 17 are all above .7

Between 1, 3 and 6 it’s very unstable and correlation is low.