PSYC 3495 Study Guide - Final Guide: Randomized Controlled Trial, Cardiovascular Fitness, Cognitive Training

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3495
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Aging, training, and the brain: a review and future directions. Strategy and process training (mental exercise: providing strategies, training specific cognitive processes. Training transfer/generalization component: classes, volunteering, physical interventions (strength/endurance/aerobic, complex interventions or lifestyle changes usually with a social. )s there evidence you"re not just training them on a specific. Near transfer is training results in improvements in the trained component. Tightly tied to training protocol: strategy/process training (mental exercise) usually has good near transfer but poor far transfer. Only focus on process, get near transfer. Get them to practice and apply in real word, get better far transfer: multimodal approaches have larger far transfer, but small effects. Impact on quality of life / functional outcomes: multimodal typically positive in this regard. Brain-based approach to treatment design and evaluation: now can analyze the outcome of the behaviour and of the brain, )f there"s a negative behaviour, can look at if anything was changed in the brain.