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Title: Ageing - Developmental Changes in Later Life
Description: The developmental changes that happens to the body during ageing. Second year psychology student. In the Mind, Brain and Development module at the University of the West of England.
Description: The developmental changes that happens to the body during ageing. Second year psychology student. In the Mind, Brain and Development module at the University of the West of England.
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Mind, Brain and Development
Ageing: Developmental Changes in Later Life Lecture
Theories of Ageing
Metabolic rate:
- Organisms have a finite amount of energy to last them a lifetime
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Animals show this connection
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Caloric intake: Slows the ageing process
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Correlational data not necessarily causal data
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- Lifespan partly determined by number of times cells able to divide
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- Telomeres assist in regulating cell division – multiple repeats of fundamental DNA,
decreases with age and as the cell divides
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Oxidative stress:
- Ageing caused by free radicals – antioxidants argued to delay ageing process
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Programmed cell death:
- Innate capacity for cells to self-destruct – inbuilt mechanism to destroy cells
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(2012) The Self Illusion: Who Do You Think You Are? London:
Constable audio book, listen to it
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g
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, high order processing, has
the greatest level of connections and provides the most energy, allowing us to do
things with greater efficiency
Many control mechanisms that allow us to control our behaviour and allowing
flexibility e
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inhibition
Born with basic neural patterns that allows for moving and language development,
built to learn as much about the environment as possible, however considerable
scope for that being affected by what we do (e
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sculpting our behaviour and
development)
Feedback loop: interact with the environment, feed that back to the brain and
connections made – no two people with the same brain
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- These connections due to interactions with the real world
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Synaptic Pruning: got to make sense of all these connections, when learning new
skill, you try many new ways of doing things but then eventually find most efficient
way so prune the others as they are no longer needed
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Positron emission tomography (PET): Looks at changes in blood flow
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Electroencephalography (EEG): Directly measures neural activity, not particularly
good
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Different areas of the brain have different functions, cognition (social behaviour and
emotion responding) all learnt from these non-invasive scans
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[YouTube video: How does the brain change with age? Part 1 Cam Can Project
Overview]
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Maximise the cognitive health allows for healthy ageing
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- Increasingly medical practitioners share the decision concerning which treatment
option to choose with patients
Social problem solving: Older adults less likely to use problem solving in an emotional time,
and tend to hold off responding
- Older adults exert more emotional control, reducing the likelihood of conflict and
other stressors (Magai & Passman, 1997)
Everyday competence:
- Being able to effectively solve real-life problems bolsters beliefs about ability to deal
with problem situations
Social Cognition:
- Causal attribution theory: A lot of our behaviour is schema-driven, however if the
schema is no longer accurate you will respond inappropriately, need to try and
update the schema heavily demanding, which can lead to problems with older
adults
- Fundamental attribution error
Title: Ageing - Developmental Changes in Later Life
Description: The developmental changes that happens to the body during ageing. Second year psychology student. In the Mind, Brain and Development module at the University of the West of England.
Description: The developmental changes that happens to the body during ageing. Second year psychology student. In the Mind, Brain and Development module at the University of the West of England.