FRHD 2060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory, Salthouse

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Gillian Joseph

Document Summary

Older adults are stereotyped as people whose memory declines. Memory intimately involves our sense of self. 3 general steps: encoding: process of getting information into the memory system, storage: manner in which information is represented and kept in memory, retrieval: getting information back out of memory. No evidence of age difference in how information is organized in storage. Working memory: processes and structures involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using that information to solve a problem, make a decision, or learn new information. Evidence that older adults perform more poorly on simple span tasks than young adults. Age-sensitive factor that affects long-term memory processing. Plays active, critical, and central role in encoding, storage, and retrieval. Older adults perform more poorly when presented with multiple tasks. Salthouse, babcock and shaw argue the loss of ability to hold items in working memory may limit overall cognitive functioning in older adults.