PSY313H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stimulus Modality, Salthouse, Sensory Memory
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Psych of aging chapter 4, 5, 6 (test ii) Info enters the system (brain) and is transformed, coded, and stored in various ways. Info enters storage temporarily until it is stored more permanently: at later time info can be retrieved in response to some cue. Exercise group"s performance in the switching task improved significantly after the exercise program. Improved cerebrovascular sufficiency may have led to improvement in attentional capacity in the exercise group. Salthouse and colleague showed that the strong version of resource decline has little empirical support. Varied mapping practice condition (vm) target and distractor letters are chosen from same set; ppl cannot learn to ignore any of the letters; will not result in automatic processing. Can be used to study memory search or visual search. Whether older adults develop automatic processes depends on : sufficient amt of practice must be provided (i. e. , thousands of.
