PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Episodic Memory, Inhibitory Control Test, Stiff Upper Lip
22 Mar 2016
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Mistakes: we tend to repeat familiar acions. Negaive experiences: keep from needlessly reliving emoional distress. The tendency, increasing over the lifespan, to recall more pleasant memories than either neutral or unpleasant ones. Younger and older adults viewed pictures of pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant scenes. Ater a 15 minute delay, tried to recall the pictures: results. Young: recalled equal numbers of posiive and negaive images. Old: recalled fewer pictures overall: but recalled about twice as many posiive than negaive images, recogniion equivalent for posiive and negaive images. Why the posiivity bias: as we get older, focus. Shits away from goals concerning knowledge and the future. Moves toward maintaining a sense of wellbeing: thus, older people become more skilled in emoion regulaion. Goal-driven monitoring, evaluaing, altering, and gaing one"s emoional reacions and memories about emoional experiences: aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sit through cluter informaion.
