PSY313H5 Lecture Notes - Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Autobiographical Memory
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Memory can be categorized in several different ways. Explicit ltm is much less affected than explicit ltm. Research suggests that ltm of the non-declarative procedural type hold up well with age. Study: >500 adults and tested on ability to learn simple motor task 9sliding finger off a rod as quickly as possible and rate of speed at which they improved) found that older adults saw sign. Improvement and retained memory of this task for as long as. This type of task to learn how to do certain things remains in young and adult. Procedural memory; when learned to do well and efficiently is preserved. Can also use this efficient to compensate for other use of strategies to bypass difficulties that would occur trying to bypass other types of memory. Because procedural memory is part of implicit memory. Semantic variety holds up well with age with minor declines after age 65.
