________: mood disorder in which the individual is deeply unhappy, demoralized, self- derogatory, and bored.
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Terminal decline
________: changes in cognitive functioning may be linked more to distance from death or cognition- related pathology than to distance from birth.
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Exercise interventions
________ can improve older adults processing speed.
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Cholinesterase inhibitors
________ designed to improve memory and other cognitive functions by increasing levels of acetylcholine in the brain.
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executive attention
Depression is linked to lower ________, memory, and language performance.
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Neurofibrillary tangles
________: twisted fibers that build up in neurons.
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Higher educational attainment
________ is strongly associated with older adults working memory.
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Deterioration
________ in metacognition is linked to older adults life satisfaction.
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Age related deficits
________ occur more often in prospective memory tasks that are time- based rather than those that are event- based.
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Mitochondrial dysfunction
________ is an early event in alzheimers.
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Patterns
________ of neural decline with aging are more dramatic for retrieval than for encoding.
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Oxidative stress
________ occurs when the bodys antioxidant defenses dont cope with free radical attacks and oxidation in the body.
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Dietary patterns
________ are linked to cognitive functioning in older adults.
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Cardiovascular disease
________ is associated with cognitive decline in older adults.
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Aerobic endurance
________ was linked to better working memory in older adults.
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Mild cognitive impairment
________: risk factor for alzheimers.
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prefrontal cortex
Aging of the brains ________ may produce a decline in working memory.
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Greater distractibility
________ of older adults is associated with less effective functioning in neural networks in the frontal and parietal lobes (cognitive control)
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Aerobic exercise
________ improves executive function in older adults.
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Declines
________ in prospective memory occur more often in labs than in real- life settings.
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self esteem
Secure attachment to God was linked to increased optimism and ________.
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Bilingualism
________ may delay the onset of alzheimers.
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organizational pressures
Workplace ________, financial security, and poor physical and mental health were antecedents of early retirement.
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Selective attention
________: focusing on a specific, relevant aspect of experience while ignoring the irrelevant aspects.
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Cognitive ability
________ is one of the best predictors of job performance in older adults.
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moderate exercise
Engaging in mild or ________ was linked to improved cognitive functioning in older adults with chronic disease.
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Executive function
________ in older adults increased their sense of control, which is associated with higher life satisfaction and positive affect.
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Semantic memory
________: a persons knowledge about the world.
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Antidepressants
________ are less effective with older adults.
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physical fitness
Improving the ________ of older adults can enhance their cognitive functioning.
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Retirement
________ increased the risk of having a heart attack in older adults.
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Reminiscence bump
________: adults remember more events from the second and third decades of their lives than from other decades.
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older adults
Processing speed is an important indicator of the ability of ________ to continue to safely drive a vehicle.
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Engagement
________ in physical activity in late adulthood was linked to less cognitive decline.
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cognitive functioning
Changes in the brain can influence ________, and changes in ________ can influence the brain.
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Older adults speech
________ is typically lower in volume, slower, less precisely articulated, and less fluent.
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emergence of dementia
Slowing of processing speed is linked to the ________ over the next six years.
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Non language factors
________ may be responsible for some of the declines in language skills that do occur in older adults.
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Religious service attendance
________ was associated with a higher level of resilience in life and lower levels of depression.
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Amyloid plaques
________: dense deposits of protein that accumulate in the blood vessels.
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Lower income older adults
________ are more likely to work in more physically demanding jobs, making it more difficult for them to continue working when they get old.
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Younger adults
________ have better connectivity between brain regions than older adults do.
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Family caregivers
________ health- related quality of life in the first three years after they began caring for a family member with alzheimers deteriorated more than their same age and gender counterparts who were not caring for an alzheimer patient.
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Major depression
________ can result in suicidal tendencies.
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Decline
________ in perceptual speed is associated with memory ________.
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Older adults
________ are more likely than younger adults to use both hemispheres of the brain to compensate for declines in attention, memory, executive function, and language that occur with age.
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cognitive functioning
When older adults engage in complex working tasks and challenging daily work activities, their ________ shows less age- related decrease.
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Older adults
________ are less able to ignore distracting info than younger adults.
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older adults
With simple vigilance: ________ perform as well as younger adults.
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selective attention
focusing on a specific, relevant aspect of experience while ignoring the irrelevant aspects
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divided attention
concentrating on more than one activity at the same time
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sustained attention
focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, etc
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with simple vigilance
older adults perform as well as younger adults
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complex
older adults performance usually drops
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executive attention
planning actions, allocating attention to goals, detecting and compensating for errors, etc etc
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explicit / declarative memory
memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state
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episodic memory
retention of info about the details of lifes happenings
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reminiscence bump
adults remember more events from the second and third decades of their lives than from other decades
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semantic memory
a persons knowledge about the world
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tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
individuals cant quite retrieve familiar info but have the feeling that they should be able to retrieve it
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terminal decline
changes in cognitive functioning may be linked more to distance from death or cognition-related pathology than to distance from birth
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major depression
mood disorder in which the individual is deeply unhappy, demoralized, self-derogatory, and bored
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symptoms
doesnt feel well, loses stamina easily, has a poor appetite, is listlessness and unmotivated
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second most frequent
vascular dementia
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amyloid plaques
dense deposits of protein that accumulate in the blood vessels
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neurofibrillary tangles
twisted fibers that build up in neurons
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mild cognitive impairment
risk factor for alzheimers
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respite care
services that provide temporary relief for those who are caring for individuals with disabilities, individuals with illnesses, or the elderly
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main treatment
administering drugs that enhance the effect of dopamine in the diseases earlier stages and later administering the drug l-dopa, which is converted by the brain into dopamine