Describe the three types of memory. How is each related to development during middle age?
What will be an ideal response?
- 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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d. They impair attention at all levels.
Mac is five years old, and his parents were using spanking as their only means of disciplining Mac. After each spanking, Mac grew increasingly angry and usually took it out on the dog or his two-year-old brother. A counselor suggested other punishment alternatives, such as time-out, as well as encouraging the parents to use praise and rewards more often when Mac was behaving appropriately
According to research, since Mac's parents have changed to less punitive parenting, Mac's level of aggression will most likely a. decline. b. remain at the current level since aggressiveness is a part of Mac's innate temperament. c. remain at the current level because Mac is too old to benefit from a change in parenting styles. d. increase because Mac's parents will not be able to suppress his misbehavior and aggression using time-out.
What is Psi Chi?
a. An organization that psychologists belong to b. A smaller, sister organization to Psi Beta c. The national honor society in psychology d. An organization that is only offered at community colleges
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a. epithelial cells. b. stem cells. c. glands. d. neurons.