HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Finding Dory, Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory
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Chapter 6: the psychology and social psychology of aging (day 7: january 29, 2018) But different types of memory and intelligence show different amounts of change. Memory: the recall of information after learning takes place. Sensory memory: information perceived through the senses and stored as memory. Short-term memory: where information is stored temporarily while it it being processed or for a short time afterward. Working memory: where recent acquired info is stored temporarily, retrieved and manipulated. Long-term memory: the storehouse of knowledge that also includes the rules for applying knowledge. In finding dory, she has short term memory loss and is not able to retain information to store into the long term memory. Repetition: (eg. p, sherman 42 wallaby way, sydney) Mnemonics (eg. the cow eats apples and the horse eats oranges) Non-episodic memory (semantic): information with no reference to the time at which it was acquired, such as general knowledge of the world.