PSYC 325 Study Guide - Metamemory, Ibm Officevision, Working Memory
16 Apr 2013
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Most adults think that they are more forgetful than younger people. Declines with age: working memory, encoding into retrieval from episodic memory, source monitoring, prospective memory. Processing speed: age-related declines are caused because the person"s cognitive processing does not work as quickly as those of younger adults. Therefore it will take longer for older people to learn new information or retrieve stored info from memory: salthouse (1996) asked younger and odler adults to make perceptual comparisons as fast as possible. These involved deciding whether two letter in different fonts are the same or whether two pictures are the same. The participants were asked to make the judgements as fast as possible. When rt was examined, there was a consistent advantage for younger adults over older adults. Inhibition theory: older adults do not have a good ability to block out irrelevant stimulation. So memory declines seen with age are a consequence of poor attentional processes.
