Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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 |
|
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 |
|
Childhood Amnesia |
adults can't remember prior to age 3 but babies have good episodic memory |
|
Speech Rate |
Smaller for younger children (2 years); only 2 Larger for older children (9 years); 6, almost like adults |
|
Strategy Limitations |
Children use rehearsal |
|
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) |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |