GERO 14029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
17 Oct 2018
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3 abilities: problem solving, verbal skills, social competence. Primary mental abilities (pmas): mathematical reasoning, ability to generalize, spatial relations, retain and recall from readings, perceptual speed. Older people who take intelligence tests tend to show lower functioning. Practical memory: memory skills are necessary to cope with everyday life. With age, memory can be maintained/ enhanced. Older people tend to remember positive things in comparison to negative things. Effects of disease or injury on memory. First step in receiving info through sensory organs and passing it onto primary or secondary memory. Holds newly acquired info before processing into long term memory or discarding. Age deficits especially when the info needs to be manipulated. Requires processing of new info to be stored and cues to retrieve stored info. Mediators: visual and verbal links between info to be encoded and info in secondary memory. Visual mediators are useful to learn new words, names, or concepts. Verbal mediators (mnemonics) are riddles, rhymes, and codes.
