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Charlie Brown versus Snow White
— the effects of descriptiveness on young and older adults' retrieval of proper names | | Author(s) | Kethera A Fogler, Lori E James |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp P201-P207 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Mental clarity ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The non-descriptive nature of proper names has been suggested as one reason that people experience particular difficulty learning and recalling names. This experiment tested whether the exacerbated difficulty experienced by older people in retrieving proper names is partly due to names' non-descriptive quality. Young (age 18-23) and older (age 63-81) participants named pictures of well-known cartoon characters that have descriptive names (e.g. Snow White, Big Bird) or non-descriptive names (e.g. Charlie Brown, Garfield). Older people were particularly impaired in retrieving non-descriptive names. Results indicate that theories of name memory must represent the non-descriptive nature of names and account for the decreased retrieval difficulty for descriptive compared with non-descriptive names in ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080305212 A |
| Classmark | DB: DE: DF: SD6: BB: 48: 7T |
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