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Social context effects on story recall in older and younger women
— does the listener make a difference? | | Author(s) | Cynthia Adams, Malcolm C Smith, Monisha Pasupathi |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp P28-P40 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Older women ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The story-recall performance of 48 older women (mean age 67.81 years) and 47 younger women (mean age 20.47 years) was examined within a story-retelling context with two listening conditions. The women were asked to learn one of two stories, the aim being to retell the story from memory either to an experimenter or to a young child. Did the listener make a difference in story recall? Yes. Although age group differences in propositional recall favouring the younger women occurred when an experimenter was the listener, there were no age group differences when a child was the listener. In addition, when a child was listening, both older and younger tellers adapted their narratives by producing more elaborations and repetitions, as well as by simplifying the more complex of the two stories. Across stories, however, the older tellers adjusted the complexity of their retellings to the age of their listeners, more than did younger tellers. The social context in memory ageing research is highlighted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020305211 A |
| Classmark | DB: BD: BB: SD6: 48: 7T |
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