Tutorial 3

Question 1

Both natural ageing and dementia have which cognition types in common that decline less so than other symptoms?

Answer 1

• Long-term memory
• vocab and reading

Question 2

How do natural ageing and dementia differ in terms of cognition types that decline less so than other symptoms?

Answer 2

Less decline:

*Natural aging
- immediate memory
- for vocab and reading - specifically semantic knowledge

*Dementia
- attention/working mem
- vocab & reading (usually preserved
until severe progression)

Question 3

Both natural ageing and dementia have which cognition types in common that decline MORE so than other symptoms?

Answer 3

• Fluid intelligence
• Processing speech (bradyphrenia) (or speed in dementia)
• Delayed recall
• Learning
• Sustained Attention (higher cognition)

Question 4

Cognition Types that
- differ between natural ageing
- decline MORE so than other symptoms?

Answer 4

Natural Ageing
- non-verbal reasoning
- processing SPEECH

Dementia
- Reasoning
- Processing SPEED
- Visuospatial tasks
* Planning/organisation
* Orientation