Key question

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  • Most common type is Alzheimer
  • Define and state symptoms
  • No cure - can be helped if diagnosed early
  • Describe Professor Bruno test

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  • Displacement theory applies to study
  • Primary effect - earlier items in list well rehearsed so go into LTM (easier recall)
  • Middle items - displaced as no time to rehearse
  • According to MSM - STM max capacity of 9 items
  • If doesn't experience displacement not rehearsing primary items suggests LTM has problem that is pathological

  3TS

  • Helps diagnose patients earlier in dementia
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  • Cognitive stimulation stimulates mind
  • Getting patients together in groups, playing games and doing puzzles
  • Activities linked to memories (Looking at old photos, old songs)
  • For mild to moderate patients

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  • Focuses on earlier memories from childhood and young adulthood
  • Most sufferers can access episodic memories together - relieve more LTM
  • Reconstructive memory - memories constructed by schemas so anything that reinstates schemas help memory
  • Kindergarten kids at mount residential home activated schemas

  3TS

  • Doing this would slow down progress which reduces stress
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  • Hogeway dementia village
  • Define dementia village
  • Explain how they work

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  • Reconstructive memory - some wealthy have schemas corresponding to high class of Hogeway
  • Find it easier to remember episodes and procedures so can be fit and active instead of declining in beds
  • Tulving episodic and semantic LTM - recent episodic lost first - sufferers live in past and find present situation distressing
  • Staff go along with behaviour

  3TS

  • Calms down sufferers and doesn't distress them however some say goes against ethics
• Conclusion

  • Cognitive psychologists can't cure dementia but reduce symptoms
  • Can diagnose early and slow down
  • Hogeway evidence sufferers live longer even if decieved