Describe the three types of memory. How is each related to development during middle age?
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- Sensory memory is the initial, momentary storage of information, recorded by the sensory system as a raw, meaningless stimulus.
- Short-term memory holds information for 15 to 25 seconds.
- If the information is rehearsed, it then moves into long-term memory, where it is stored on a relatively permanent basis.
- Neither sensory nor short-term memory show any weakening during middle age.
- Declines in long-term memory have been documented, but the reasons could be due to inefficient storage and retrieval; encoding is unaffected, but locating the information and getting it back out may be problematic.
- Overall, memory declines in middle adulthood are fairly minor.
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