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| Adult age differences in recall of performed and nonperformed items | | Author(s) | Julie L Earles |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 638-648 |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Correlation. |
| Annotation | Memory for performed cognitive activities (e.g. psychometric tests of intelligence), for performed brief actions (e.g. hand wave), and for non-performed items (e.g. written words) was assessed for 102 older and 101 younger adults. Although enactment improved recall, the beneficial effects of enactment were the same for both age groups. More than 80% of the age-related variance in memory for performed items was shared with memory for non-performed items. Working memory and perceptual speed were important to the age differences in memory for both types of items. Performed and non-performed items showed different serial position effects. However, the correlation between memory for the two types of items was high, especially for older adults, suggesting that the two types of memory share many common processes. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120227 A |
| Classmark | BB: SD6: DB: DA: DG: 49 |
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