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The aging eyewitness
— effects of age on face, delay, and source-memory ability | | Author(s) | Amina Memon, James Bartlett, Rachell Rose |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 6, November 2003 |
| Pages | pp P338-P345 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental clarity ; Mental ageing ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As a way of examining the nature of age-related accuracy differences in identity parade line-ups, young (16-33 years) and older (60-82 years) witnesses viewed two similar videotaped incidents, one involving a young perpetrator, the other an older perpetrator. The incidents were followed by two separate line-ups for each perpetrator. When the test delay was short (35 minutes), the young and older witnesses performed similarly well; but when the tests were delayed by one week, the older witnesses were substantially less accurate. When the target was absent from the line-ups, the older witnesses made false alarm errors, particularly when the faces were young. When the target was present in the line-ups, correct identification by both younger and older witnesses were positively correlated with a measure of source recollection derived from a separate face recognition task. Older witnesses scored poorly on this measure, suggesting that source recollection deficits are partially responsible for age-related differences in performance in the line-up task. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406227 A |
| Classmark | DB: DF: D6: BB: SD6: 48: 7T |
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