{"id":1403,"date":"2018-12-20T06:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1403"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:52:25","slug":"introduction-to-cognitive-development-in-late-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/chapter\/introduction-to-cognitive-development-in-late-adulthood\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood","rendered":"Introduction to Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood"},"content":{"raw":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">What you'll learn to do: explain cognitive development in late adulthood<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3751\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2018\/12\/21023836\/elder-1471399.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is assisting an old man in reading a book\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">There are numerous stereotypes regarding older adults as being forgetful and confused, but what does the research on memory and cognition in late adulthood actually reveal? In this section, we wil<\/span>l focus\u00a0upon t<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">he impact of aging on\u00a0memory, how a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">ge impacts cognitive functioning, and a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">bnormal memory loss due to Alzheimer's disease, deliriu<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">m, and dementia.<\/span><\/span>","rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">What you&#8217;ll learn to do: explain cognitive development in late adulthood<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3751\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2018\/12\/21023836\/elder-1471399.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is assisting an old man in reading a book\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">There are numerous stereotypes regarding older adults as being forgetful and confused, but what does the research on memory and cognition in late adulthood actually reveal? In this section, we wil<\/span>l focus\u00a0upon t<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">he impact of aging on\u00a0memory, how a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">ge impacts cognitive functioning, and a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">bnormal memory loss due to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, deliriu<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">m, and dementia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1403\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Sonja Ann Miller for Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Elder. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Alterio Felines. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/images\/id-1471399\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/images\/id-1471399\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood\",\"author\":\"Sonja Ann Miller for Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Elder\",\"author\":\"Alterio Felines\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/images\/id-1471399\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"0fbfaec9-ef75-4824-9c2f-c0c431a3a1c9","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1403","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":372,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1403\/revisions\/7853"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/372"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1403\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}