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| Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year old adults | | Author(s) | David C Rubin, Matthew D Schulkind |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 3, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 524-535 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Life span ; Young adults [20-25] ; Adults ; Over 70s ; Statistical distributions ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors test hypotheses concerning autobiographical memories across the life span in 20-, 35, and 70- year old participants. For word-cued autobiographical memories, older adults had an increase, or bump - that is, a higher recall of memory - from ages 10 to 30. All age groups had fewer memories from childhood than from other years, and a power-function retention function for memories from the most recent 10 years. There were no consistent differences in reaction times and rating scale responses across decades. Concrete words cued older memories, but no property of the cues predicted which memories would come from the bump. The five most important memories given by 20- and 35-year-old participants were distributed similarly to their word-cued memories, but those given by 70-year-olds came mostly from when they were aged 20 to 30. No theory fully accounts for the bump. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120279 A |
| Classmark | DB: BG6: SD6: SD: BBK: 3Y3: 7T |
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