PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fokker E.Ii, Procedural Memory, Mnemonic
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Encoding becomes less efficient as people age b. iii. Memory loss that happens due to aging is less severe than originally thought, especially for those who engage in regular cognitive stimulation b. iv. Over time, if information is not used, memories can decay and fade c. ii. There is an initial rapid rate of forgetting that eventually levels off c. ii. 2. c. ii. 3. The initial rate of forgetting is very rapid. Whatever information we retain after the initial time period, we keep for a long period of time c. iii. One study looked at people who completed a spanish course and were tested 1 year later and 49 years later c. iii. 1. 1 year after completing the course, there was a huge drop in the amount of vocabulary people remembered c. iii. 2. 49 years later, people remembered almost as much as they remembered 1 year after completing the spanish course: retrieval failure d. i.
