PSYCO223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ageism, Stereotype Threat, Negative Priming
1 Nov 2016
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Cognition and aging: cognition information processing, processes include, attention, memory (remembering), language processing, decision making, problem solving, intelligence, wisdom, major focus in the psychology of aging, applied reasons (ability to negociaate world, requires effective cog. Theoretical reason (cant say you understand memory if you only study it at one stage in the lifespan) Mechanistic approach, breaking things down, understanding the deficits in each. Sensory store: where new, incoming information is first registered. Large capacity, quickly decays iconic, anticoic, auditory, sensory memories: memory details are dependent on how much attention is given to the stimuli. If attention is given, then the info is passed to the next stage of processing and can lead to a memory. In general no age differences in the sensory store. Storage capacity = about seven chunks (miller, 1956) Storage and processing functions: coordinating function of storage and processing, where we do our thinking, working through a problem, talking to yourself, focusing on your working memory.
