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Aging and memory for self-performed tasks
— effects of task difficulty and time pressure | | Author(s) | Julie L Earles, Alan W Kersten, Beverley Berlin Mas |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 6, November 2004 |
| Pages | pp P285-P294 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Mental clarity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Performance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors hypothesised that an increase in task difficulty or time pressure would impair older people's ability to recall the tasks. They designed a series of three experiments to examine their hypothesis. In Experiments 1 and 2, adult age differences in recall of cognitive tasks were smaller for easier than for difficult tasks, and for Experiment 3, adult age differences were smaller for recall of cognitive tasks, without time pressures than for recall of cognitive tasks with time pressures. During difficult or time-pressured cognitive tasks, older people may become anxious about their performance; and they may have trouble inhibiting negative self-evaluative thoughts about their performance. Older people may thus devote less attention to aspects of the cognitive tasks that would be beneficial for task recall. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050217221 A |
| Classmark | DB: DE: DF: BB: SD6: 5H: 7T |
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