15. Memory and aging Flashcards
Key words from Baddeley, Eysenck & Anderson (2009)
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Longitudinal design
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Method of studying development or aging whereby the same participants are successively tested at different ages.
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Cohort effect
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The tendency for people born at different time periods to differ as a result of historic changes in diet, education and other social factors.
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Environmental support
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Characteristics of a retention test that support retrieval.
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Associative deficit hypothesis
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Proposal that the age deficit in memory comes from an impaired capacity to form associations between previously unrelated stimuli.
