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| The impact of stereotype threat on age differences in memory performance | | Author(s) | Thomas M Hess, Corinne Auman, Stanley J Colcombe |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp P3-P11 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The hypothesis is investigated that age differences in memory may be influenced by stereotype threat associated with negative cultural beliefs about the impact of ageing on memory. Recall was examined in 48 young (ages 18-30) and 48 older (ages 62-84) adults under conditions varying in the degree of induced threat. Conditions that minimise threat resulted in lower performance in older adults relative to both older and younger adults who did not experience threat. The degree to which threat affected older people's performance increased along with the value that these individuals placed on their memory ability. Older adults' memory performance across experimental conditions was observed to co-vary with degree of activation of the negative ageing stereotype, providing support for the hypothesised relationship between stereotype activation and performance. Stereotype threat also affected mnemonic strategy use, which in turn partially mediated the impact of threat on recall. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030212201 A |
| Classmark | DB: 5H: TOB: BB: SD6: 7T |
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