Psychogerontology_1er parcial

Episodic memory (events) have the highest probability of deterioration

Procedural memory (steps, motor skills, habits) it is the most affected

In senescense, wrinkles are the consequence of subcutaneous adipose tissue, "liver spots" nd the UV rays wont let renew

In developing countries is common to find them working still, specially in stores.

It concentrates on stability and change and how these can affect the cognitive,motor and emotional variables.

It refers to the average remaining years of life that can be expected at a given age (stadistics).

Semantic memory (concepts, history) has lesser deterioration after 60's

Procedural knowledge

It's more common amog folks with higher education, traveling, cultural events and after 75 focus on family and home

There are six styles of retirement

Self control is the key to predict their mood

It's accesible, low cost activities that involve family, home and their friends

Resistance also diminish along with age, specially among men, comparing with other aspects like flexibility.

Lesser influence in their health but mood is affected by the quality of their marriage

Biological aging theories: genetic programming theories and variable rate theories.

Vital parts of cells and tissue wear out

Stage 1 sleep increases, stages 3 & 4 (REM) diminish, therefore, if they fall asleep, ussually their sleep isnt deep

Changes on processing capacities are organized by:

Aging is the result of our genes getting disconnected.

Some researchers have dicovered that old brains can develop new brain cells from mother cells.

Young workers work slowly, but more accurate.

Factual knowledge

Failures that bring deseases that our body won't handle

Elder folks have a lot of sex, men until teir 70-80's and women their whole lifetime, but less excitation signals

Any activity that requires skill, attention and commitment (carpentry,etc)

The more u eat the quickest u die (like the hummingbird)

It studies the way people evolve throughout life and promotes optimal aging.

Life context and social changes

Born, grow, reproduce and die, that's it.

Our biological clocks acts through hormones.

Classic aging patterns: performance tasks diminish and verbal scales are better, multidirectional ages profiles.

Repeating numbers, changing the task and remembering them after a short time but can't do it backwards

Sensory memory increases and working memory decreases

Relativism on ethical values and life

Low motivation at work tended to enjoy the immediate "honey moon", but it was associated to depressive symptoms

They take care of elder folks

Social consequences: decrease on the capacity to inhibite that's why they have imprudent sayings

Long term memory is divided into episodic and procedural

Training implies practice, feedback and learning specific strategies to perform a task

Wisdom: experience, knowledge,intelligence,good judgment,insight empathy and the queality of being wise

Retirement (19-20th century) was obligatory for those who had 75 yrs old, then it became illegal cuz it's discriminatory

Hippocampus is essential in new information storage (episodic memory), a damage here= loss in recient memories

At age 65, myelin layer grows thin, hence, this change is associated with motor and cognitive decline.

Pathological Factors of aging: different life styles, accidents, diseases, etc

It's the gradual loss of capacity of the center of the retina, unable to distinguish sharpness in the fine details

Paul Bates: Wisdom has 6 categories

It refers to the duration of life, particularly that of exceptionally long-lived individuals (quality). Long lifespan.

Life uncertainities

The digestive system remains efficient but the heart rate is slow nd irregular, fat close to it causes elevated pressure

Crhonical stress can depres the immune functioning being susceptible to infectious respiratory diseases

Being part of the community.

Any improvements at life expectancy won't diminish mortality rates.

The cognitive capaticies and mortality are divided into IQ and Reaction time, elder folk are better at taking care of ts

People who keep working at that age aren't as stressed as those who retire earlier cuz theyve a better education/health

Elder folks can do great work that requires precision, at a constant rhytm and a mature judgment (more experience)

Usually adults lose from 10 to 20% of their strenght at 70 years old and this loose increases along with their age

Half of it depends on your genes, cells atack other cells due to confusion

It studies aging and its impacts on the population, its about educating and understandig.

Frontal lobes and hippocampus are some of the structures that are involve in memory processing and storage.

Substances oxidate the cells (antioxidants) 'nd your body can't get rid of 'em

In sm countries over the 50% are economically active/ in wealthy countries only a 2% remain active (4% for woman)

Long term memory begins its decay at 58/59 yrs, the capability to understand non-familiar words til 78/89 yrs

The amygdala shows a lesser response towards posutive events, but not towards negative

Primary mental habilities need cognitive and physical trainig like puzzles, chess, problem solving 'nd cog challenges

It's the duration of life of an individual and its oldest age reached in the population.

Usually, the number of Elder people working depends on the wealth of their country.

Brain losses volume and weight (frontal cortex) (EF) dopamine diminish due to synapse loss.

Damages in frontal cortex can promote attention and focus difficulties, and problems to perform a task with many steps.