Memory

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This paper discusses how as the baby-boom generation has aged, the study of aging has become progressively more important and as a result the field of gerontology has become mature and studies on the effects of aging on memory have been at the forefront of this growth. It examines the results of a research study that was conducted to examine the differences between age groups on three components of memory function. The components investigated were working memory, implicit/explicit memory, and semantic organization.

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"The examination of aging and memory is now a heavily researched area. Recent studies have included investigations of age-related slowing of information processing in mental imagery tasks (Briggs, Raz, and Marks, 1999) and the influence of physical ailments such as hearing loss on both memory and memory-related tasks (Alain and Woods, 1999). Another area of scrutiny has been the differences in memory in younger and older people. Maki, Zonderman, and Weingartner (1999) recently completed a study that indicated that, while younger people performed better than older subjects on some memory tasks, the performance of the older respondents was better if their self-assessment of their memory was accurate, lending some more confirmation to the metamemory studies of Zelinski, et al."

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