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10 Cards in this Set
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Habituation Paradigm |
recorded looking time for infants at a certain stimulus tends to be shorter for boring stuff or stuff they've seen before longer for changing things or new stimuli |
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Mobile Kicking Paradigm |
tests memory/perceptual encoding infant realizes that his/her kicking causes the mobile to move, then does it to make it move |
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Childhood Amnesia |
adults can't remember prior to age 3 but babies have good episodic memory |
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Speech Rate |
Smaller for younger children (2 years); only 2 Larger for older children (9 years); 6, almost like adults |
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Strategy Limitations |
Children use rehearsal |
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Vision |
Change in sensory functioning that includes: changes in external eye parts that cause poor visual acuity/depth perception (35-45 years) changes in retina/nervous system. decrease blood flow starves retina. glaucoma (55-95 years) |
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Hearing |
Changes in sensory functioning that includes: 20% of individ.s report some loss (45-55 yrs) 75% report some loss (75+ yrs) greater loss for high freq sounds greater for men than women |
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Brain |
Changes in sen. functioning that includes: loss of neurons with age loss of dendrites in neurons that are left decrease in avail. of neurotransmitters |
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slowing |
decrease in speed of old ppl 20% for simple task, 50% for harder tasks can be alleviated by exercise active seniors much faster than inactive |
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Sleep Disturbances |
after 60 there is an increased amount of sleep disturbances could be due to sleep apnea, periodic leg movements, heartburn linked to depression/anxiety/cog deficits |
