PSYC 3490 Chapter 6: Adult Development and Aging Textbook Chapter 6
7 Feb 2018
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Processing speed and attention: processing speed is the amount of time it takes for an individual to analyze incoming information from the senses, formulate decisions, and then prepare a response on the basis of that analysis. Visual search tasks, which require that the observer locate a specific target among a set of distractors: 1. Adult development and aging midterm notes chapters 5 and 6: researchers are interested in how older adults mentally juggle information coming from different sources. Ignore irrelevant information: approved attentional capacity, faster reaction time, rapidly process changing information, keep track of multiple objects. Improve useful field of view, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h tests people"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:396)espo(cid:374)d to sti(cid:373)uli appea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the pe(cid:396)iphe(cid:396)(cid:455) of their visions. Adult development and aging midterm notes chapters 5 and 6. Social cognition and aging: interaction of memory changes with changes in self-efficacy, control beliefs, and identity, 1.
