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Controlled and automatic forms of memory and attention: process purity and the uniqueness of age related influences
Author(s)Timothy A Salthouse, Jeffrey P Toth, Holly E Hancock
Journal titleThe Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 5, September 1997
Pagespp P216-P228
KeywordsCognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Measurement ; Evaluation.
AnnotationMany contemporary measures of cognitive performance involve a mixture of theoretically distinct processes, and it is seen as important to disentangle those processes and to identify their separate contributions to relations between other variables, such as age. In this study, estimates of controlled and automatic processes hypothesised to underlie performance in a memory task and in an attention tasks were derived for 115 participants aged between 18 and 75 years, using the process-dissociation procedure. Results showed that reliable measures of theoretically distinct processes can be obtained from two different cognitive tasks, and that those estimates have different patterns of relation to age and other cognitive measures.
Accession NumberCPA-971125283 A
ClassmarkDA: DB: 3R: 4C

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