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False recognition effects in young and older adults' memory for text passages
Author(s)	Donna J LaVoie, Theodore Malmstrom
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 4, July 1998
Pages	pp P255-P262
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America.
Annotation	Recent work has demonstrated an age-related increase in susceptibility to illusory memories: specifically, older adults make more false recognition responses to unstudied items when such items are semantically related to studied items. Most studies have examined false recognition for semantically associated words. The current study extends that previous work by examining false recognition effects for schematised story actions. In two experiments, young and older adults studied schematised stories, and were later given a recognition test for studied and unstudied story actions. Results indicate that both age groups produced robust false recognition effects, but older adults were not more susceptible to these effects. These results suggest there are limits to the range of circumstances that yield age differences in illusory memories. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980903238 A
Classmark	DB: DE: BB: SD6: 7T
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