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| Older and younger adults use a functionally identical algorithm to select items for restudy during multitrial learning | | Author(s) | John Dunlosky, Christopher Hertzog |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 4, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp P178-P186 |
| Keywords | Learning capacity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors investigated whether ageing affects several components of how people select items for study during multi-trial learning. Younger and older American adults studied paired-associate items, and then made delayed judgments of learning (JOLs). Immediately after making a JOL for an item, some participants decided whether to restudy the item on subsequent trials; for other participants, the computer selected for restudy the items that had been judged as least-well learned. Next, paired associate recall occurred, which was followed by restudy-test trials. In contrast to the hypothesis that older adults would be more conservative in selecting items, both age groups selected to restudy (a) the items that they had rated as least-well learned, and (b) the majority of items that would not be recalled on the first trial. Comparisons between participants who self-selected items vs the groups in which the computer controlled selection also converged on the conclusion of age equivalence in processes underlying item selection. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125272 A |
| Classmark | DE: BB: SD6: 7T |
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