PSY-3218 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6,7,10: Flashbulb Memory, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
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Information processing and attention: automatic and effortful processing. Automatic processing: places minimal demands on attentional capacity, gets information into the system largely without us being aware of it. Effortful processing: requires all of the available attentional capacity, information-processing model. Uses the computer as a metaphor to explain how people process stimuli. The regions in red are where most of the normal age problems are. Normally aging adults often have trouble juggling many things in their mind (working memory), and deliberately or effortfully encoding and retrieving information. In abnormal aging (alzheimer"s disease), there is an additional storage problem new information doesn"t get shifted into long-term memory. Eventually they also start to lose long- term memories that are already stored. Essentially, people who are aging normally have long-term memories but have trouble accessing them. People with ad lose the memories themselves, so there is nothing to retrieve: working memory (think: all open processes)
