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11 Cards in this Set
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median age
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The age at which 50 percent of a population is older and 50 percent is younger.
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young-old
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eople in their six-ties and seventies
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old-old
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People age 80 and older
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divided-attention task
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A difficult memory challenge involving memorizing mate-rial while simultaneously monitoring something else
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memory-systems perspective
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A framework that divides memory into three types: procedural, semantic, and episodic memory.
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procedural memory
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In the memory-systems perspec-tive, the most resilient (longest-lasting) type of memory; refers to material, such as well-learned physical skills, that we automatically recall without conscious awareness.
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semantic memory
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In the memory-systems perspec-tive, a moderately resilient (long-lasting) type of mem-ory; refers to our ability to recall basic facts.
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episodic memory
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In the memory-systems perspec-tive, the most fragile type of memory, involving the recall of the ongoing events of daily life.
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socioemotional selectivity theory
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A theory of aging (and the lifespan) put forth by Laura Carstensen, describ-ing how the time we have left to live affects our priorities and social relationships. Spe-cifically, in later life people focus on the present and pri-oritize being with their clos-est attachment figure
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positivity effect |
The tendency for older people to focus on positive experiences and screen out negative events.
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integrity
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Erik Erikson’s eighth psychosocial stage, in which elderly people decide that their life missions have been fulfilled and so accept impending death.
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