FRHD 2060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Spatial Memory, Verbal Memory, Object Permanence

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

Document Summary

List of exam hints from lecture frhd 2060 mt 2. Long-term memory: the ability to remember extensive amounts of information from a few seconds to a few hours to decades. Men are generally worse than women at episodic and semantic memory. Men 70-85 showed no significant differences in semantic memory but were still worse than women at episodic memory. Men are generally worse than women at recognition and recall (episodic) and knowledge and fluency (semantic) Men 70-85 were better than women at fact-based knowledge but worse than women for all other categories. There is an age-related decline in accessibility and speed of retrieval. Training memory skills thm: training and improvement is possible! Internal aids rely on mental processes e. g. mnemonics. External aids rely on environmental resources e. g. notebooks and calendars. Only modest, short-term improvement; no medical breakthroughs. Many drugs have side effects that cause memory problems drug interaction in older adults.