DEP 4464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Sensory Memory
7 Apr 2017
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Information-processing model uses a computer metaphor to explain how people process stimuli. Incoming information is transformed based on what a person already knows about it. Both quantitative & qualitative aspects of performance can be examined: researchers look for age differences in both how much information is processed & what types of information are remembered best under various conditions. Information is processed through a series of processes: researchers in adult development & aging focus on several specific aspects of information processing. Early aspects, including a brief sensory memory & attention. Active processing that transfer information into a longer-term store. Using this model poses 3 fundamental questions for adult development & aging. Sensory memory: a brief & almost identical representation of the stimuli that exits in the observable environment. Doesn"t appear to have the limits other processes do when attentional focus is applied. Representation will be lost quickly unless we pay attention.
