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Age & Memory
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undergraduate Psychology of Ageing and Dementia Mind Map on Age & Memory, created by Olivia Dohren on 15/10/2014.
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psychology of ageing and dementia
undergraduate
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Age & Memory
Annotations:
Blanchard-fields and Hess(1996)
neuropsychological perspectives
Annotations:
Park & Schwarz (2002) chapter 6
frontal lobe theory
Annotations:
West (1996)
neural noise
Annotations:
Wellford
sulci become more prominent due to cell loss
reduced dendritic branching
reduced concentration of NTs
intracellular (within cell) changes
reduced cerebral blood flow
age related atrophy in hippocampus, frontal lobes and cerebellum
similar to HM
memory
Annotations:
Park & Schwarz chapter 5 - discuss each memory type and evidence
important to breakdown memory into different components...
age differences increase as cognitive/environmental support decreases
Annotations:
Bunce et al (2003) cognitive support
attribute age effects to memory system (episodic/semantic) or memory structure (LTM, WM etc)
LTM
Episodic
consistent eveidence for age deficits
memory for life events
Semantic
no age effects
world knowledge
Procedural
no age affects
driving car
playing piano
primacy information
STM
WM
age effects
processing component
actively processing information 'on-line'
Primary Memory
no age effects
passively holding information in mind
recency information
Implicit vs explicit memory
implicit - unconscious processes, no age effects
explicit - conscious, age effects
hippocampus and frontal lobes
ageing adults show frontal lobe and explicit memory declines
dissociation through Amnesic and Korsakoff patients
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