PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Psychoanalysis, Phlegm, Improper Conduct

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Persons awareness becomes less clear, he or she has difficulty concentrating, focusing attention, and thinking sequentially, which leads to misinterpretations, illusions, and on occasion hallucinations. Experience significant memory losses along with losses in other cognitive functions such as abstract thinking or language. Named from alois alzheimer (identified it in 1907) Most common form of dementia (2/3 of all cases) Begins with mild memory problems, lapses of attention, difficulties in language and communication. Symptoms worsen, the person has trouble completing complicated tasks or remembering important appointments; eventually have trouble remembering simple tasks, distant memories are forgotten, and changes in personality. Short term memory (working memory): gathers new info. Long term memory: accumulation of info that we have stored over the years, info that first made its way thought short term memory system. Procedural memories: learned skills we don"t have to think about (walking) Other forms of dementia other facts that have been learned.