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| Differential age-related change of prose memory in older Hong Kong Chinese of higher and lower education | | Author(s) | T M C Lee, K S L Yuen, L W Chu |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 3, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 216-222 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Chinese people ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Educational status [elderly] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Memory difficulty is one of the most common complaints of older people, with or without psychiatric conditions. This article discusses changes of prose memory associated with ageing and the differential effect of education on prose recall by older people. 48 normal, healthy Cantonese-speaking Chinese were recruited, 17 of them younger and highly educated. Of the 31 older people recruited, 19 of them received education comparable with the younger participants, and 12 had a low level of education. A prose passage was constructed to measure the different processes of prose memory, including learning efficiency, rate of forgetting, recall accuracy, accuracy of temporal sequence of information recalled, distortions, and recognition memory. As expected, ageing affected all the processes of prose memory measured, except the rate of forgetting. Apart from learning efficiency and rate of forgetting, education was observed to modify the effect of ageing on all processes studied. The findings seem to suggest that prose memory is a multifaceted construct. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040505211 A |
| Classmark | TKL: DA: DB: DE: F:V: BB: 48: 7DR |
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