PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Chronometry, Cognitive Flexibility, Information Processing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 402
• Professor: Dana Williams

Document Summary

Rebranded, name is no longer dementia now called major or minor neurological disorder. Alzhimers = disease, neurocognitive disorder in which the indv suffers progressive and irreversible neuronal death. Dementia = cluster of symptoms present bc of different disease (alzhimers, parkinsons, etc. ) Original = stress is bad, lead to death, not good. New = stress is part of life if you look at it as positive/a challenge, you wont die/get diseases. Less likely to forget: pollyana principle, more likely to remember pleasant memories from past in late adulthood, easier to remember stuff that represents a view of your present self, eg. Implicit/procedural: procedural and motor memories, memories on how to do things, eg. Whe(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e says so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d you did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)at(cid:272)h it, (cid:271)efore they repeat it, you remember bc of the loop: visuospatial scratch pad, visually and spatially you know where things are placed, episodic buffer.