Study Guide For Test #5 (Chapters 13, 14, & 15)

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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 perspective, 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 perspective, a moderately resilient (long-lasting) type of memory; refers to our ability to recall basic facts

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episodic memory

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in the memory systems perspective, the most fragile type of memory, involving the recall of the ongoing events of daily life

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continuing bonds

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a widowed person's ongoing sense of that deceased spouse's presence "in spirit"

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widowhood mortality effect

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the elevated risk of death that occurs among surviving spouses-particularly men- after being widowed

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· Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory (8thStage)

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integrity

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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