memory concerns
-memory is getting worse
-report: increased anxiety and memory; little control over memory ability
most common complaints
forgetting names of people, forgetting locations and objects, forgetting what you were about to do, forgetting if you've completed a task or not, losing the thread of a conversation
how useful are self evaluations of memory
-correlate modestly with objective memory measures
-correlate more strongly with depression symptoms
-may be an indicator of future memory decline: 2010 longitudinal study and lasted 7 years, people with subjective memory impairment (but no objective impa
does memory change with age?
depends on the type of memory
sensation memory
momentary sensory impression; lasts fraction of a second, unconscious
short term memory
attention span lasts seconds or fractions therof