Human Growth and Development
Lecture 19: Cognitive Development: Late Adulthood
4/18/06
- Cognitive Function
- Multidimentionality & Multidirectionality
- Cognitive mechanics
- Cognitive pragmatics
- Attention
- What is selective attention?
- Sustained attention
- Divided attention
- Memory
- Explicit
- Implicit
- Working memory
- Wisdom
- What is it?
- Increases with age?
- Learning new skills
- Work
- Employment
- Part-time
- Volunteer
- Full-time
- Why/when to stop
- Adjusting to retirement
- Health
- Alzheimer’s
- Multi-infarct dementia
- Parkinson’s
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Last updated: 4/17/06