Theory of Aging
Changes in Working Memory
Semantic or Episodic?
False Memory
Use it or Lose it
100

Older adults do not have the best ability to block out irrelevant stimulation

What is the Inhibition theory?

100

Researched Changes in Working Memory

What did Göthe, Oberauer, and Kliegl do?

100

Age has little effect

What is semantic memory?

100

Older adults will demonstrate equivalent memory accuracy to younger adults

What is a nonsuggestive method?

100

Older adults who engage in complex mental activity on a regular basis are more likely to preserve function

What is the Use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis?

200

Age-related declines are caused because the older person’s cognitive processing does not work as quickly as those of younger adults

What is the Processing speed theory

200

visual-motor task

What was task 1?

200

Studies of general knowledge find older adults outperform younger adults

What is Semantic memory?

200

–Older participants showed a bigger misinformation effect than did younger participants

What is suggestibility in older adults?

200

Conducted numerous studies that show certain behaviors tend to alleviate some age-related memory declines

Who is Dixon and Salthouse?

300

Older adults have more difficulty recognizing melodies when they are played at a fast tempo but no differences at a slower tempo

What is the lexical decision test for the Processing Speed Theory?

300

a simple numerical task

What was Task 2?

300

Older adults show:No differences in recognition and Usually worse at recall

What is episodic?

300

Many studies have shown that older adults have a deficit in source memory

What is Misattribution of Source?

300

Education and lifestyle

what are buffers against memory declines and other cognitive declines in old age?

400

Older adults take longer on lexical decision tasks

What was the result of the study done on the Processing Speed Theory?

400

Older and younger adults learned this task with equal ease

What was learned?

400

Rhodes, Castel, and Jacoby researched this

What is episodic memory?

400

Fthey are more likely to think that an imagined event was real

What is Reality Monitoring?

400

found that memory training led to improvements in the recall of stories

Who is Craik?

500

Darowski et al. (2008) asked younger and older participants to read short texts

What was the study done on the Inhibition Theory?

500

Younger adults are better at multi-tasking than older adults

What are the implications of the research done on changes on working memory?

500

Older adults and younger adults performed at the same level in this task

What is episodic memory?

500

more likely to confuse the source of a real memory

What is source monitoring error?

500

Bundles of neurons that connect one area of the brain to another

What are White matter tracts?