Psühholoogia bioloogiline-, kognitiivne- ja sotsiaalne vaade
intact. There is evidence that the amygdala plays a role in the storage of emotional
experience perhaps because emotions are used to evaluate experience.
Alzheimer's is a progressive degenerative disease that ultimately results in death,
marked by severe retrograde and anterograde amnesia. It starts with minor
forgetfulness and progresses steadily to depression, amnesia, hallucinations and/or
delusions. Alzheimer's causes neurological damage to the brain. The patients often
have severe hippocampal damage and brain imaging technologies show widespread
atrophy of the cortex with plaques and tangles in the hippocampus.
Discuss how social or cultural factors affect one cognitive process.
Cognitive researchers have traditionally constructed research in western countries. It
was assumed that cognitive processes follow universal laws, and that the same
cognitive test could apply to everyone, but that is not the case. Cross-cultural