An opposition procedure for detecting age-related deficits in recollection: telling effects of repetition
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Older adults tend to repeat themselves due to problems with recollection. Stories tend to be repeated unless there is a conscious memory of having told them. Age-related recollection deficits can be measured by assessing the time it takes for repetition errors to arise. Older adults showed a marked difference in their performance on this test. This research backs previous findings where older adults were less able to classify test items in terms of how often they had been presented.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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Separating habit and recollection in young and older adults: Effects of elaborative processing and distinctiveness
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On the basis of research showing that fast responding reduced recollection but left the effects of habit unchanged, using the process-dissociation method, older adults were expected to be less able than young adults to recall an earlier event, although not to differ in their dependence on habit. It was demonstrated that elderly adults have memory impairments in a facilitation condition, and older adults have deficits in recollection, but automatic influences or habit, stay intact.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1999
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Event understanding and memory in healthy and aging and dementia of the Alzheimer type
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Older adults' segmentation of activity into events was less consistent with group norms especially for those diagnosed with mild dementia of the Alzheimer type. Impaired semantic knowledge about events was also associated with memory deficits since semantic knowledge about events guides encoding, facilitating later memory and once this is impaired in aging and dementia, memory suffers.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2006
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