Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture 18: Lecture 18

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3347A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

Document Summary

The ability to do things without occupying theming with the low - level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition and practice. Therefore can allocate more attention to other things. One pool of attention that is split or completely allocated to one thing: performance facilitated by practice of physical skills and by increasing knowledge. Declarative: explicit memory, factual information, topic speci c, episodic memory. Speci c personal experiences from a particular time: semantic memory. World, object, and language knowledge: study, bjorklund 1987. How age changes in knowledge base contribute to the development of children"s memory. Age differences in semantic memory affect the easy with which information in permanent memory can be activated, which in turn in uences the amount of mental effort available for other cognitive operations. Stronger we understand semantic memory > better it is stored in permanent memory > easier it is to access.