HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paul Baltes, Leo Ornstein, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
31 May 2016
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The ability of people to recall information after learning has occurred. With aging there is some memory decline. Sensory information: capacity that people have to perceive through mobility (sense, touch, smell) Short-term memory: where info is stored temporarily (phone number) Long-term memory: the storehouse of knowledge that also includes the rules for applying knowledge (retain info) Does take old people a bit to remember. Old people experience changes in vision and hearing. Refers to the minds ability to process information which is stored and accessed for future use such as task completion. Have difficulties remembering things that don"t mean anything to them. Also if the info is scrambled they have trouble remembering. Recognizes that many conditions influence people"s memory, including biology, individual-level capacities, and schooling. Many different conditions that can affect memory (individual capacity, biologically, social context) Aging process is not comprised simply of cognitive decline. Real life planning actual experience, able to draw on task relation.
