FRHD 2060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pragmatics, Attention Span, Midlife Crisis

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Limited capacity: about seven chunks (miller, 1956, memorizing a phone number. Plays an active, critical, and central role in encoding (y), storage (n), and retrieval (y). Older adults, presented with multiple tasks, do poorly compared to younger. Evidence of age-related decline in working memory not entirely clear, but there is evidence these differences relate to performance on more complex cognitive tasks. Two types or systems (have idea: explicit or declarative memory (deliberate conscious remembering) . Implicit or procedural memory (change in performance by exposure to information at so(cid:373)e earlier ti(cid:373)e (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot deli(cid:271)eratel(cid:455) tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er (cid:374)o(cid:374)-conscious) Crystalized intelligence (remember: semantic, based on facts, more likely to decline in semantic memory because it is knowledge based. Episodic memory: based on recognition and recall, recognition is mc, recall is short answer. Overall men vs women regardless of age we see that women are doing better on both memories.