FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-2: Semantic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory
5 Dec 2013
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Memory researchers have long focused on three general steps in memory processing as potential sources of age differences: encoding, storage and retrieval. Encoding: the process of getting information into the memory system. Storage: the manner in which information is represented and kept in memory. Retrieval: getting information back out of memory. Since there is no evidence of age differences in how information is organizes in storage, most research has examined encoding and retrieval as sources of age differences. Immediate memory process was conceptualized as passive short-term storage or short-term memory. The idea is that people have a limited capacity for remembering information. The question is whether older adults maintain this capacity. A typical short term memory task measures the longest span of digits a person can recall immediately after presentation. Studies typically report little or no age difference in these simple and passive span measures.
