PSYC 3P60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Synaptic Pruning, Long-Term Memory, Autobiographical Memory
2 Mar 2016
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Piaget); as you move from one stage to next, the way you think is qualitatively different. With age, your storage and processing capacity increases. A fleeting image that decays rapidly (lasts for less than 2 seconds) Info held on while being worked on (conscious access) Limited by attentional resources (adults = 7 items plus or minus 2 items: long term memory. Permanent storage system; holds cast quantities of info. Procedural: learned habits and skills (riding a bike, how to dress yourself) Declarative: general facts and autobiographical memory (facts, what happened last week) Basic level abilities involved in regulating attention and using info in short or long term memory. 5 cognitive abilities associated with executive function (each become increasingly sophisticated with age: speed of processing. Whether its mental rotation of objects, memory searching like memory games, visual search like wheres waldo, or name retrieval with age speed increases.
