HLTHAGE 1BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
2 Apr 2016
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Tend to use elder speak: latency increase with age. New approaches: neuroimaging techniques show brain compensates for losses (homeostatic, show plasticity and adaptiveness, not all adults show same cognitive decline. Limits of lab research: other influences such as verbal and educational, support may influence older people"s memory, fear of failure on memory tests (stereotype threat, learn more when info is relevant and useful, design flaws. The contextual approach: many conditions influence memory, ex. Intelligence: ability to negotiate environmental demands successfully, test measures, decrease in working, short and long term memory and processing speed, verbal knowledge stable, fluid intelligence: reasoning, abstracting, problem solving, physical and nervous system. Decline with age: crystallized intelligence: stored info, acculturation and learning, verbal tests. Learning: learning memory linked: learning involved in retrieval of information, older adults can learn if enough personal or situational conditions are present, differences between and with cohorts, longer to encode, recall and respond.
