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| Memory for news in young and old adults | | Author(s) | David A Frieske, Denise C Park |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 1, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 90-98 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Newspapers [publications] ; Radio [media] ; Television [media] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young people ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Memory for news was studied in 48 young and 48 old adults (aged 20-40 and 60-80, respectively). Three stories selected from actual news programmes were presented in print, audio and TV formats for study. Young adults recalled a higher proportion of news content than older adults and performed better on source recognition tests. Presentation of the information on TV led to better performance than in audio format for both age groups. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that approximately 86% of the age-related variance in news recall was mediated by measures of sensory acuity and processing speed; and communality analysis revealed that 75% of the age-related variance was mediated jointly by acuity and speed. Findings support common cause and generalised slowing views of memory impairment in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825205 A |
| Classmark | DB: DG: UE:6H: UKA: UKL: BB: SB: 4C: 7T |
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