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Prospective memory and aging
— forgetting intentions over short delays | | Author(s) | Gilles O Einstein, Mark A McDaniel, Marisa Manzi |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 4, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 671-683 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental ageing. |
| Annotation | Retrieved intentions often cannot be performed immediately and must be maintained until there is an opportunity to perform them. In three experiments, on seeing a target event, younger and older participants were to withhold an action until they encountered the appropriate phase of the experiment. When initial retrieval was made facile by the use of a salient retrieval cue, the age-related decrements were often dramatic, even over unfilled delay intervals as brief as 10 seconds (experiments 1 and 2). When initial retrieval was difficult, older people showed no forgetting over the retention interval (experiment 3). Several theoretical perspectives were offered as explanations for the age differences observed with salient retrieval cues, including those that focus on age differences in metamemory, the degree to which plans are reformulated, and the ability to non-strategically maintain current concerns in working memory. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010312206 A |
| Classmark | DB: D6 |
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