Psychology 2015A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Long-Term Memory
25 May 2016
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Temporary storage and manipulation of information that is necessary for various cognitive abilities. Central executive selects and integrates information from across the three subsystems. Fluid systems - cognitive processes that manipulate information. Crystalized systems cognitive systems that accumulate long term knowledge. A memory system containing very specific representations of events that is hypothesized to be responsible for priming effects. Episodic memory system operates with a deeper understanding. The tip of the tongue phenomenon knowing you know something without quite being able to recall it. Young people outperform older people on episodic memory, but old people do well on semantic memory. Associated deficit hypothesis older adults have a deficiency in creating and retrieving links between single units of information. Young and old are able to identify familiar names and faces about the same, but older have trouble pairing names to faces compared to younger. Memory deficits in older people are not general.
