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| Word frequency effects in priming performance in young and older adults | | Author(s) | Rowena Gomez |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 3, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp P233-P240 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 24 younger (mean age 20) and 24 older (mean age 73) Americans participated in three experiments relating to memory performance. In Experiment 1, participants performed a spelling test consisting of primed and unprimed homophones (e.g. mourning) and non-homophones (e.g. militant). The older group spelled more unprimed, low-frequency homophones than did the younger group. Experiment 2 involved a word-fragment completion task that primed both high- and low-frequency words. Young adults showed larger priming effects for low-frequency words, whereas older adults showed smaller and similar priming effects for high and low frequency words. Experiment 3 replicated the finding that word frequency has no effect on priming performance in older people on a word fragment completion task. These studies found differential word frequency effects on priming performance between young and older adults. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020617205 A |
| Classmark | DB: DE: BB: SD6: 7T |
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