Aging and prospective memory: examining the influences of self-initiated retrieval processes.
Aging and prospective memory: examining the influences of self-initiated retrieval processes.
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10.1037//0278-7393.21.4.996
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1995-07
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G. Einstein;M. McDaniel;Sarah L. Richardson;Melissa J. Guynn;Allison R. Cunfer
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作者:
G. Einstein;M. McDaniel;Sarah L. Richardson;Melissa J. Guynn;Allison R. Cunfer
Past research has frequently failed to find age differences in prospective memory. This article tested the possibility that age differences would be more likely to emerge on a prospective memory task that was high in self-initiated retrieval. In the 1st experiment, participants were asked to perform an action every 10 min (a time-based task presumed to be high in self-initiated retrieval); in the 2nd experiment, participants were asked to perform an action whenever a particular word was presented (an event-based task presumed to be relatively low in self-initiated retrieval). Age differences were found with the time-based task but not with the event-based task. This pattern of age differences was again found in a 3rd experiment in which a new experimental procedure was used and the nature of the prospective memory task was directly varied. Generally, the results suggest that self-initiated retrieval processes are an important component of age-related differences across both retrospective and prospective memory tasks.