Dementia

question 230

Multiple Choice

Dementia:

• A) is the label for any illness that causes serious, progressive, often permanent cognitive loss.
• B) refers only to Alzheimer's disease.
• C) describes any neurological problem that causes damage in middle and later life.
• D) describes the memory problems most older adults have.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency; in biology, the dying out of a species.

Commission

An instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people.

Fixed-ratio Schedule

This is a schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded only after a specified number of responses.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process where behavior is controlled by consequences, including reinforcements and punishments to increase or decrease the behavior's occurrence.