Cognitive Changes in Healthy Elders
Difficulties: cross-sectional vs longitudinal
Intelligence: Crystallized (familiar) remains steady whereas Fluid (reasoning) declines
Types of tasks that are vulnerable to decline
- Requiring divided attention
- Memory tasks with greater interference
- Requiring mental manipulation (reversing digits)
- Visual memory declines prior to verbal
- Timed tasks decline big time
- Unfamiliar material; novel tasks