Chapter 7
Memory
Information-Processing Revisited
Working memory
Working memory is the processes and structures involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using that information.
You would use your working memory to solve a problem, make a decision, and when learning.
Information is kept active through rehearsal.
In general, working memory capacity and rehearsal decline with age, although the extent of the decline is still in doubt.
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Long-Term Memory
Long-term memory is the ability to remember extensive amounts of information over relatively long periods of time.
Explicit memory:remember a list of words (deliberate and conscious remembering of
info learned and remembered at a specific time)
Episodic memory:what you did on Friday (memory having to do with the conscious
recollection of info from a specific time or event)
Semantic memory:knowing the definitions of words
(concerns learning and remembering the nmeaning of words and concets
that are not tied to any specific occurrences of events in time)
Remote Memory
Remote memory information that must be kept for a very long time.
Autobiographical Memory
Remembering information about one's own life
Older adults have fewer flashbulb memories which are historical events that have considerable personal relevance, very unusual or novel events, and other events that are highly emotional are remembered well, such as your wedding day.
Implicit Memory
Implicit memory is the facilitation or change in task performance that is attributable to having been exposed to info at some earlier point in time, but which does not involve active, explicit memory.
Memory in Everyday Life
Spatial Memory memory
for location. Older adults have poorer performane for location thatn
youger adults, however age differences are typically eliminated when
familiar loctaions or objects are tested and contectual cues are given.
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Prospective Memory
Prospective memory is remembering to take your medications (remembering to remember something in the future.).
Memory for Pictures
Older adults have a hard time remembering some types of
pictures, including faces, so they rely on schemas (what they expect to see
based on experience to help them remember scenes, especially when they are not
well organized scenes.)
http://www.mppl.org/research/online_memory_games.html