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Aging and prospective memory
— differences between naturalistic and laboratory tasks | | Author(s) | Peter G Rendell, Donald M Thomson |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp P256-269 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Ageing process ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Prospective memory is usually defined in contrast to retrospective memory, with the former involving remembering to do things in the future, and the latter involving information acquired in the past. Contrasting age-related trends in laboratory and naturalistic prospective memory (PM) studies were investigated with the same participants. In the first two experiments, 380 participants in three age groups (20s, 60s, and over 80s) were given a naturalistic PM task of logging the time at four set times for one week. There were six between-subjects regimens that varied the complexity of the time schedule, and the opportunity to use conjunction cues and external aids. The 60s and 80+ age groups did not differ, and both older and age groups were consistently superior to the young adults on all regimens. In Experiment 3, the same participants showed a significant age-related decline on retrospective memory tasks, and on event-based and time-based laboratory PM tasks embedded within the retrospective memory tasks. The study confirmed the paradoxical age-related trends on laboratory and naturalistic PM tasks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220209 A |
| Classmark | DB: 5H: BG: BB: SD6: 7YA |
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