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| Naturally occurring and experimentally induced tip-of-the-tongue experiences in three adult age groups | | Author(s) | Marilyn K Heine, Beth A Ober, Gregory K Shenaut |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 445-457 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Young elderly ; Octogenarians ; Nonagenarians ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Tip-of-the-tongue experiences (TOT) were examined in thirty young (ages 18-24 years), thirty young-old (ages 60-74) and thirty old-old (ages 80-92) adults. In study 1, TOT experiences were experimentally induced with definitions of to-be-retrieved targets. If the target was not retrieved, orthographic or semantic cues were provided. Age-related increases in the occurrence of TOT experiences and in the time needed to resolve TOT experiences were found for young versus young-old and young-old versus old-old groups. In study 2, the same participants recorded naturally occurring TOT experiences in structured diaries during a 4-week interval. Both the number of TOT experiences and the resolution time for TOT experiences increased with age. However, the percentage of TOT experiences resolved was equal across age groups; given enough time, even the oldest participants resolved all TOT experiences. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000114234 A |
| Classmark | DB: DA: DG: BBA: BBM: BBR: SD6: 7T |
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