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| Age-biased interpretation of memory successes and failures in adulthood | | Author(s) | Sherrie Bieman-Copland, Ellen Bouchard Ryan |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp P105-P111 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This US study extends previous research, which has demonstrated that age stereotypes bias the interpretation of everyday memory failure, by examining the responses of 81 young and 84 older participants to questions about the meaning and causes of memory successes and failures. The scenarios used describe memory situations in which age differences would be small or non-existent and included situational factors that could account for the memory outcome, providing a more stringent test of the age bias hypothesis. Under such testing conditions, memory successes in older targets are seen to be less typical than for younger targets. Moreover, memory failures are seen to be more strongly caused by lack of ability and viewed as a cause for concern. Finally, memory outcomes, in general, are perceived to be less controllable for older targets. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980602404 A |
| Classmark | DB: B: SB: TOB: 7T |
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