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Variations in age-related deficits among episodic memory tasks
— an archival study | | Author(s) | Pierre Foisy |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 14, no 4, Winter 1995 |
| Pages | pp 686-696 |
| Keywords | Mental speed ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Mental ageing ; Ageing process ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Studies in 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1990 by F I M Craik have proposed that age-related deficits on memory tasks are proportional to the extent to which these tasks require the use of self-initiated operations (or mental operations beyond those "driven" by the environment or become automatic with previous practice). Because the number of required self-initiated operations vary among traditional episodic memory tasks, these tasks should display a graduation of age-related deficits (i.e. the older you are, the more difficult such tasks become). The study's objective was to discuss this hypothesis. A secondary analysis (i.e. based on the results of previous studies) was performed on 22 studies in which verbal stimuli were used as targets on more than one episodic memory task. Of the 24 comparisons provided by the studies, 21 supported the graduation concept. This result suggests that the self-initiated operation hypothesis is valid. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821275 A |
| Classmark | DG: DB: 5H: D6: BG: 3A:6KC |
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