Cognition in aging and age-related disease

Question 1

What does aging effect?

Answer 1

cognitive functions

Question 2

What are the three types of aging?

Answer 2

1. healthy / successful aging
2. mild cognitive impairment
3. dementia

Question 3

What are the names for the two explanations for cognitive decline?

Answer 3

domain-general (core) cognitive changes and domain-specific processes

Question 4

List some prominent cognitive declines

Answer 4

• problems paying attention to relevant information
• problems ignoring irrelevant information in the environment
• word-finding difficulties
• problems remembering the context in which information was learned

Question 5

Name the hypothesis for domain-general theories of cognitive aging

Answer 5

there is a shared ability that cross-cuts all of the tasks in which older adults are impaired