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1. How is each part of the information-processing system - sensory register, working memory, knowledge base, and control processes - affected by age?
2. Compare age differenced in explicit and implicit memory.
3. What are the problems with, and the conclusions derived from, research on long term memory?
4. How do stereotypes about aging held by researchers, by cultures, and by individuals affect research on memory?
5. What are some physiological and some external reasons for age-related changes in cognition?
6. How true is it that everyone develops dementia if they live long enough?
7. What are the similarities of and differences between Alzheimer's disease and MID?
8. What prevents or causes the various types of dementia?
9. What are the purpose and the result of the life review?
10. In your experience when are you bored by, and when are you fascinated with, someone else's life story?
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