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Autobiographical remembering and hypermnesia
— a comparison of older and younger adults | | Author(s) | Susan Bluck, Linda J Levine, Tracy M Laulhere |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 671-682 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Hypermnesia occurs when individuals are able to recall more information over repeated sessions even after they have indicated that they can recall nothing further. This study examined age differences in autobiographical memory and extended findings concerning hypermnesia in laboratory tasks to a real world event, the announcement of the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Older and younger adults repeatedly recalled the event in a single session. Interviews were coded for amount and type of accurate information and for errors. The age groups did not differ in ability to recall the gist of the event or in the number of errors made. Younger adults were better at remembering when the event had occurred. Both age groups showed hypermnesia. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of autobiographical memory across the life span and the phenomenon of hypermnesia in everyday memory. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000403411 A |
| Classmark | DB: B: SD6: 7T |
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