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Separating habit and recollection in young and older adults
— effects of elaborative processing and distinctiveness | | Author(s) | Janine F Hay, Larry L Jacoby |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 1, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 122-134 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Cognitive processes ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young people ; Canada. |
| Annotation | An extension of Jacoby's 1991 process-dissociation procedure was used to examine the effects of ageing on recollection and automatic influences of memory (habit) in this Canadian research. Experiment 1 showed that older adults were impaired in their ability to engage in recollection but did not differ from young adults in their reliance on habit. Older people were also less able to exploit distinctive contextual information to enhance recollection. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that with more supportive conditions, older adults were able to benefit from distinctive contextual information. Quantitative and qualitative deficits in recollective abilities were interpreted within a dual process model of memory. The problem of distinguishing between a deficit in recollection and a deficit in inhibitory processes in older people and the importance of this distinction for purposes of repairing memory performance are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825208 A |
| Classmark | DB: 5H: DA: BB: SB: 7S |
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