Psychology of Ageing Short Answer Questions

What is ageing?

Age-related declines in cognitive function (speed of processing, working memory)

Pathological ageing (dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s )

Answer all of these questions.
1. Why do older adults have difficulty in processing ‘garden path’ sentences? (50 words)
2. To facilitate failing performance, researchers have reduced task difficulty and found
that “a slow horse will save more time than a fast horse”. What does this mean? (50
words)
3. What is the ‘tip of the tongue’ phenomenon? (50 words)
4. Why is the NART (National Adult Reading Test) used as a measure of intelligence in
older adults? (50 words)
5. Why is syntactic simplicity thought of as an instance of the regression hypothesis? (50
words)
Due Date: 11 July 2018
Referencing APA referencing is required.
Word count Includes in-text citations, excludes reference list entries.