dementia

• what does cognitive stimulation do for dementia?

  -can slow down progress of the disease

  -reduces stress and loneliness

  -can involve music and pets
• Providence Mount St Vincent residential home results:

  -meet with 150 kindergartners 5 days/week

  -staff report that patients become lucid

  -"moments of grace"
• what is the mandella effect?

  -many people believe he died in 1980

  -he actually passed away in 2013
• how do schema's apply to individual differences?

  -memories based off experiences, therefore experiences are changeable

  -misremember things, but continue to level/sharpen memories

  -Elizabeth Loftus ('like a wikepedia page')
• Palombo et al (2012)

  -survey of memory

  -measured episodic, semantic, spatial, prospective memory

  -her findings= those who scored high/low on episodic memory also scored high/low on semantic

  -(memory is either really good or really bad)

  -men have a stronger spatial memory

  -women have a stronger episodic memory
• lost in the mall study

  -Loftus (1993)

  -research into false memories

  -study convinced participants of a false mem from childhood

  -success in 40% of participants
• bugs bunny study


  -Braun et al (2002)

  -implemented bugs bunny as apart of disney

  -market executives buying stock of disney and placing bugs bunny images and cardboard cutouts in the meeting
• what is dementia?


  -an illness that effects 850,000 people in the UK (rise to 1 million in 2025)

  -tends to effect the elderly but there are 40,000 people under 65 in the UK with dementia
• what are common symptoms of dementia?

  -loss of memory

  -cognitive deficits (confusion, difficulty understanding)

  -depression

  -mood swings

  -exhaustion
• how does dementia effect memory?

  -typically lose semantic categories first

  -recent episodic memory starts to be lost, forget last week, yesterday and eventually the afternoon

  -dog becomes 'animal

  -procedural memory deteriorates (riding a bike)

  -simple tasks become difficult

  -visuospatial memory weakens
• dementia village-> Hogeway


  -care home in the netherlands

  -for elderly with extreme dementia

  -living nearly normal lives

  -no locked doors, free to wonder

  -different parts of village look like diff types of homes

  -all waiters/shopkeepers are actually nurses
• how does Hogeway care home help patients?

  -type of validation therapy

  -rather than being told they are wrong/deluded patients can live out imagined life

  -reduces stress, keeps residents active

  -need less medication, more fit

  -includes cognitive stimulation
• Tulving (1972)


  -sufferers keep early childhood memories

  -recent episodic memory is lost

  -semantic memory lost separately, sufferers recognise friend but cant remember a name