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| Situation models and aging | | Author(s) | Gabriel A Radvansky, Rolf A Zwaan, Jacqueline M Curiel |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 145-160 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Mental ageing ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25]. |
| Annotation | Younger and older adults were tested for their ability to process and retrieve information from tests. The authors focused on the construction and retrieval of situation models relative to other types of text representations. Results showed that during memory retrieval, younger adults showed superior memory for surface form and textbase knowledge (what the text was), whereas older people had equivalent or superior memory for situation model information (what the text was about). The results also showed that during reading, older and younger people were similar in their sensitivity to various aspects of the texts. Overall, these findings suggest that although there are age-related declines in the processing and memory for text-based information, for higher level representations, these abilities appear to be preserved. Several possibilities for why this is the case are discussed, including an in-depth consideration involving W Kintsch's (1988) construction-integration model. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111211 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DG: D6: B: SD6 |
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