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| Associative learning and short-term forgetting as a function of age, perceptual speed, and central executive functioning | | Author(s) | John E Fisk, Peter B Warr |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp P112-P121 |
| Keywords | Learning capacity ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young people ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | In this UK study of two components of associative learning, it was found that during acquisition older people were more likely to forget material on which they were previously correct, but only for associations which were not well learned. Older people also formed fewer correct associations in the course of the task. Differences in learners' perceptual speed were found to account for some of the age deficit in the number of learning attempts, but speed was less relevant in accounting for age differences on all measures. It is argued that forgetting is less important as a source of learning performance than has been suggested elsewhere. Rather, it is the inability of older persons to form associations as rapidly as younger ones which accounts for most of the age effect. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980602405 A |
| Classmark | DE: DB: B: SB: 8 |
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