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Aging and prospective memory
— the influence of increased task demands at encoding and retrieval | | Author(s) | Gilles O Einstein, Rebekah E Smith, Mark A McDaniel |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 3, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 479-488 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Ageing process ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Performance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A feature of prospective memory tasks is that they tend to be embedded into other background activities, the demands of which are examined in two experiments. The first showed that increasing the demands of background activities (by adding a digit-monitoring task) significantly reduced prospective memory performance. Planned comparisons revealed that age differences in prospective memory were reliable only in the more demanding background condition. The second experiment revealed significant prospective memory declines when the demands were selectively increased at encoding for both younger and older adults. When the demands were selectively increased at retrieval, older adults were particularly affected. The authors propose a model that relies on both automatic retrieval processes and working memory resources to explain prospective memory remembering. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120275 A |
| Classmark | DB: BG: BB: SD6: 5H: 7T |
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