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Cross-cultural differences in memory
— the role of culture-based stereotypes about aging | | Author(s) | Carolyn Yoon, Lynn Hasher, Fred Feinberg |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 4, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 694-704 |
| Keywords | White people ; Chinese people ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Cross cultural surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The extent to which cultural stereotypes about ageing contribute to age differences in memory performance is investigated by comparing younger and older Anglophone Canadians to demographically matched Chinese Canadians, who tend to hold more positive views of ageing. Four memory tests were administered, in which younger adults in both cultural groups outperformed their older comparison group on all memory tests. For two tests, which made use of visual stimuli resembling ideographic characters in written Chinese, the older Chinese Canadians approached, but did not reach, the performance achieved by their younger counterparts, as well as outperformed the older Anglophone Canadians. However, on the other two tests, which assess memory for complex figures and abstract designs, no differences were observed between the older groups. Path analysis results suggest that this pattern of findings is not easily attributed to a wholly culturally-based account of age differences in memory performance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010312208 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKL: DB: TOB: BB: SD6: 3KA: 7S |
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