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Greater Decreases in Overall Brain Volume in Later Adulthood Is

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Greater decreases in overall brain volume in later adulthood is associated with ________________ in cognitive abilities and cognitive functioning.


Definitions:

Active Avoidance

A type of learning in which an organism learns to prevent an aversive stimulus by making a particular response.

Acquisition Training

involves the repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.

Extinction

The process in psychology where a conditioned response decreases or disappears when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral conditioning principle where the removal of an undesirable or aversive stimulus following a behavior increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

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