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Three Areas of Cognition
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Intelligence, Learning & Memory, Wisdom (check text)
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Two Types of Intelligence
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Fluid intelligence vs Crystallized (find defs)
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Primary vs Secondary Memory
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Temporary holding/processing vs permanent storate of learned info
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Information Processing Pattern
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Preattentive --> attentive -----(process/use)-----> Secondary Memory
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Aging effects on 2 and 1 memory
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Primary = decline, slower retrieval
Secondary = stable, slower retrieval (elderly bad at complex task, multitasking) |
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Memory Improvement Techniques CEMP (opposite of HEMP pun*)
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Cognitive Retraining (activites, mem training), External aides (sticky), Pills/supplements (meh), Mnemonics
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Wisdom
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Judgnment and intution in response to uncertain, open ended problems
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Creativity
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Applying unique solutions to new problems
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Depression facts
(commonness, where most comorbid) |
Most common psychopathology of elderly, often in instituionalized elderly
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Suicide Facts:
most common group, preventability by physicians? |
Mostly white male, 75% physicians see patient at least month before suicide yet fail to diagnose
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Suicide Treatments: PPM (peepee morbid, so kill self)
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Psychotherapy, Pharmacological, Mental health Services
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Psychotherapies
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Empathy, Coping skills, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Mental Health Service Issues
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Stigma, no tport, not known, $$
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