The processing resources that relate to attention and memory

Though the connection between the brain and thought is active and may change on how life is going, the alternations of these two aspects will still be connected and the changes between them will be noted.  The main intellectual functions that re mainly affected by age development are attention and memory. 

Attention

            This is the main but the most complicated intellectual process that has many processes that re needed for different features of processing information.  Lowering in attention has wide reaching effects on the capability of functioning.  The forms of attention in the article are those that have been reviewed to occur in the aging development.  Selective attention is a form of attention that has the capability to have some incentives while ignoring others that are important.  In the selective attention, the information interferes with the spotting of the color and causes increase reaction at times.  For the aged to have the best selective attention, they should select the effective incentive for processing.  The older are slower than the young adults in the response to their aims but are not mainly affected by the disturbance (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2014).   

            Divided attention is connected with the important declines in the performance mainly when works are complex.  Divided attention needs the procession of a multiple of information sources or the doing of more works at the same time.  The older adults are more challenged by this attention than the younger adults mainly when there is more demand of attention in the two tasks.  The scarcity of age in the divided attention can be lessened by more practicing and training.  Continued attention is the capability to sustain attention over a given chore and over a certain time.  So as to have the continued attention, people must assess the environment where the older adults are not exposed to the observance chores.  The older adults show the main deficiencies on the attention tasks that need dividing attention on the many tasks.  The aged are unable to sustain attention for a period of time.  The tasks on which the aged show attention is only on those that need stretchy control of consideration (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2014).     

Memory

            Working memory on the human brain makes it happen with the normal changes of aging that have been available in the concepts of memory and processing.  As people get old, there are more behaviors alternations helps people to become quick in memory. As the brain of the aged changes, the working manners also change.  The review of the aged memory involves the process of determining how every feature in the old adults’ changes in terms of processing and storing of information.  Working memory is poor in the aged. Based on the long term memory, the chores of occasional memory mainly are affected by age thus the older adults have a challenge in the daily memory.  On the semantic memory, it can be said not to be affected by the normal process of aging.  Prospective memory is stored when a person is encouraged by time rather by the event (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2014)

            The effects of memory in the older adults are related to issues on smoking and usage of fatty acids. The significance of this article on the attention and the memory processes in adults are important.  The aged suffer more changes which are not common and not permanent.

 

 

Reference

Cavanaugh, J. C., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (2014). Adult Development and Aging. Cengage Learning.