GRN 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Senescence, Sensory Memory, Working Memory
12 Aug 2016
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Looks at things that you pick up over time. Health (if sick all the time it is harder to deal with fluid intelligence) Socioeconomic status high socioeconomic status you"ll be better at dealing with problems than if you"re not. Mental health if don"t get stressed before exams your ability to deal with complex situations sing fluid intelligence is impaired. Exercising the mind is extremely important in keeping up your fluid intelligence. Higher fluid intelligence means that you"re more likely to not get alzheimer"s as you get older. What determines your level of crystallized intelligence. Having wisdom is beneficial to people as they age. Stimulus you receive (could be visual, auditory or physical touch) -> perceive it -> grabs your attention -> encode -> store -> retrieve. Working memory (am i going to encode it and remember it later) There is decay in all of these. As you get older you tend to have more memory lapses.
