Autobiographical remembering and hypermnesia: a comparison of older and younger adults
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Hypermnesia arises when people seek to recall a significant autobiographical event, according to research designed to establish whether recall level rises over repeated sessions when people recall an autobiographical event. This research also assessed whether age differences exist in adults' autobiographical memories for a significant real-life event and whether there are differences between older and younger people in the extent to which they show hypermnesia. It seems that some amount of information is initially recalled, but if the search goes on, higher recall levels may be reached by taking further information from a well-elaborated memory.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1999
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Things that go bump in your life: explaining the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory
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The higher recall of early-life memories (Reminiscence bump (RB)) is generally seen in older adults as younger adults recall recent events more readily. Memories from early life are easier and faster to retrieve than those from mid-life. The blocking of recent events produces RB in younger participants but does not affect older adults. The difference in recall is due to RB and not because of subjective quality differences.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1996
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Does job-related performance decline with age?
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Job-related training outcomes and performance have a strong negative relationship with age. Older adults show less training mastery than younger adults, though taking longer to complete the final outcome task and training program than the latter. The age-and-training-performance relationship studies need further research.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1996
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