The mediation and self-regulation of mental activity in normal aging and affective disorders of the late age (on example of memory and time perception)

Abstract

The paper presents the problem of mediation and self-regulation of mental activity in the normal and pathological aging, relevant for developmental psychology, clinical psychology, gerontology and geriatrics. For example, the memory and time perception deals with the mediation of self-regulation cognitive and emotional sphere of mentally healthy individuals of late age and patients, suffering from affective disorders of the depressive spectrum. The author discusses probable causes of the negative changes of mediating techniques and strategies in late depression (compared to normal aging). There are a number of assumptions about the role of brain factors, the characteristics of the current social situation of development and formation of cognitive activity at the previous stages of ontogenesis in the determination of the quality and range of mediating techniques and strategies, the success of self-personality.