PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spatial Memory, Reminiscence Bump, Prospective Memory
16 Sep 2014
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Telephone number: rehearse to remember until write down. Declarative: knowledge, things you can just tell people. Facts (eg. the prime minister"s name is stephen harper) Episodic: remembering events, (eg. autobiographical memory, going out for dinner last year) Younger memory is not attached to the same degree as older memory. 20-30 most recent years episodic age related trend in remembering events. Encoding: age related diffs in encoding, -eg. elaborative rehearsal-ability to do so seems to be changing; becomes less efficient, more effortful; encoding less in environment, attention: in actually deciding what gets encoded. As our priorities chance we are encoding less and less: encoding comes more easy when we were young. Retrieval: more evidence for encoding than storage difficulties. Inefficient processing, strategies: younger people are using different strategies, young put effort into encoding, it is deliberate, they reflect on it, older people don"t put that much effort into it. : may have more to do with difference in spatial ability.
