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| The effect of implicit and explicit motivation on recall among old and young adults | | Author(s) | David C McClelland, Anthony Scioli, Suzanne Weaver |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 46, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 1-20 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Attitude ; Older people ; Adults ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Few studies have examined the role of motivation in the cognitive deficits associated with ageing. In this study, seventy-six older subjects aged between 65 and 87 and seventy-seven younger adults aged between 25 and 40 were compared on implicit and explicit motive levels and on recall or introductions and working memory. Significantly fewer of the older than the younger participants scored high in the implicit motives, `affiliation' and `power', confirming results from US national surveys. The surveys also demonstrated a significant decline with age in high levels of `achievement', a decline not found here. The older participants showed major recall deficits on both tasks, but all three of the implicit motives studied were shown to enhance recall for the older adults but not for the younger adults. Eight older women scoring high on at least two of the three motives showed no recall deficits compared to the young women on two memory tasks. The study concluded that in old age implicit motive deficits contribute to poor memory but explicit commitments to have a good memory had no effect on recall. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827244 A |
| Classmark | DB: DP: B: SD: 7T |
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