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Characteristics of associative learning in younger and older adults
— evidence from an episodic priming paradigm | | Author(s) | Daniel H Spieler, David A Balota |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 607-620 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | It is suggested that older adults have difficulty in creating novel associative links in memory; and in learning, spaced repetitions result in better memory performance than massed repetitions. Two experiments investigated age differences in encoding of associative information, in which semantically unrelated prime-target word pairs were presented four times, in either massed or space fashion, during the learning phase. An immediate or delayed test trial was conducted following the fourth presentation. In Experiment 1, participants named both the primes and the targets. In Experiment 2, participants named only the target word. Results of test trials showed a greater benefit for massed repeated words than for spaced repeated words at the immediate test, and a reversed pattern at the delayed test. This spacing by test delay interaction was evident in response latency in Experiment 1, and in cued recall performance in Experiment 2. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120225 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DE: BB: SD6: 49: 7T |
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