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| Effect of age on event-based and time-based prospective memory | | Author(s) | Denise C Park, Christopher Hertzog, Daniel P Kidder |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 314-327 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Life span ; Mental ageing ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Prospective memory is the memory required to carry out planned actions at appropriate times - such as meeting a friend for lunch or taking a medication - so is of considerable interest whether this memory declines in late adulthood. This was investigated in two experiments, in which participants performed a working memory task, and either an event- or time-based prospective action. Control participants performed either the working memory task or the prospective memory task only. There were age differences on both prospective tasks; it was particularly marked on the time-based task. However, performance on the event-based prospective task had a higher cost to performance on the concurrent working memory task, suggesting that event-based responding has a substantial attentional requirement. Older adults made a significant number of time monitoring errors when this was their sole task - suggesting that a deficit in time-monitoring rather than in prospective memory is to blame. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120262 A |
| Classmark | DB: BG6: D6: BB: SD6: 7T |
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