PSYC33H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.2: Episodic Memory, Prospective Memory, Implicit Memory
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Memory rehabilitation in older adults (glisky & glisky, 2008) Main point: outlines the major methods of memory rehabilitation that have been attempted and suggests some boundary conditions for their use. In normal aging, declines are evident in episodic memory, source memory, working memory and prospective memory. But not in semantic, implicit or procedural memory. (sip) In ad, deficits in episodic memory appear early and are severe and semantic memory is also affected. Effortful/resource-demanding tasks like free recall thus show more deficits: older adults tend to have less difficulty when information merely has to be passively held in short term memory (forward digit span) Appointments: but they do well at real-world prospective tasks because they take advantage of external aids such as calendars/notebooks. Semantic domain: information that has been accumulated over the years (ex. Vocab, general knowledge) is well-retained in old age.
