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Vocab. Chapter 6 & 7
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- 1Postformal OperationsThe way that adults structure their thinking over and beyond that of adolescents
- 2Formal OperationsAbility of adults and adolescents to use logic/abstract symbols to arrive at solutions to complex problems.
- 3Fluid ReasoningThe individual's innate abilities to carry out higher-level cognitive operations involving the integration, analysis, and synthesis of new formation.
- 4Crystallized IntelligenceRepresents the acquisition of specific skills and info. that people gain as a
result of their exposure to the language, knowledge, and conventions of their culture. - 5Pragmatics of IntelligenceAn individual's aptitude
to apply his or her
abilities to the
solution of real-life problems. - 6Episodic MemoryMemory for events that took place in the past
- 7Source MemoryRecall of where or how an individual acquires information
- 8Procedural MemoryRecall of the actions involved in
particular tasks
(i.e. playing piano, riding bike, etc.) - 9Reserve CapacityAbilities that are there but are currently untapped
- 10Theory of Multiple IntelligencesTheory that intelligence includes several traditional
abilities as well as
others not usually
tapped in intelligence tests. - 11Dialectical ThinkingRelated to the postformal stage of cognitive developtment involving an interest in and appreciation for debate, arguments, and counterarguments.
- 12Autobiographical MemoryRecall of information from a person's own past
- 13Neuropsychological AssessmentInvolves gathering info. about a client's brain functioning from a series of standardized cognitive tests.
- 14Long-term MemoryThe repository of info. that is held for a period of time ranging from several minutes to a lifetime.
- 15Attentional Resources TheorySuggests that attention is a process of reflecting the allocation of cognitive resources
- 16Testing the LimitsProcess of continuing to train people until they show no further improvements
- 17ElderspeakA speech pattern
directed at older adults
similar to the
way people
talk to babies - 18Inhibitory Deficit HypothesisSuggests that aging reduces the individual's ability to inhibit or tune out irrelevant info.
- 19Inhibitory ControlProcess of turning off one response while performing another
- 20Memory Self-EfficacyThe degree to which an individual believes he can successfully complete a memory task
- 21Scaffolding TheoryOlder adults are able to recruit alternate neural circuits as needed by task demands to make up for losses suffered elsewhere
- 22Semantic MemoryAbility to recall word meaning and factual information
- 23Intelligence TestProvides an assessment of an individual's overall cognitive status along a set of standardized dimensions
- 24Communication Predicament ModelOlder adults are
thought of mentally incapicitated, leading
younger people
to speak to them in a simplified manner.
Over time, this
can have the effect
of reducing the
older adult's actual
ability to use language - 25Visual Search TaskRequires that the
observer locate a
specific target among a set of distractors - 26CognitionThe way the mind works
- 27Working MemoryKeeps info. temporarily available and active in consciousness
- 28Prospective MemoryThe recall of events to be performed in the future
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