Age differences in prospective memory for everyday life intentions: A diary approach
Age differences in prospective memory for everyday life intentions: A diary approach
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DOI：
10.1080/09658211.2015.1018276
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2016-04-20
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2.1
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Kliegel, Matthias
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Schnitzspahn, Katharina M.;Scholz, Urte;Kliegel, Matthias
在许多自然前瞻记忆（PM）任务中发现的年龄效益已被作为现实生活中PM表现可能免于衰老的证据。然而，这一结论缺乏实证证实。因此，本研究的目的是检查日常PM意图及其表现的内容可能存在的年龄差异。使用日记法对年轻人和老年人的日常PM进行评估。结果证实了现实生活中的PM任务的总体年龄效益。重要的是，这一发现是合格的，因为它揭示了这种好处只适用于特定类型的意图，如健康和社会意图。此外，适度分析表明，认知功能与日常PM之间的关系在年轻人和老年人中是不同的。虽然更好的抑制，短期和长期记忆与年轻人成功的PM表现有关，但在老年人中并非如此。目前的研究结果表明，在自然主义实验任务中发现的年龄优势延伸到现实生活中的PM表现，但可能因意图类型而异。此外，认知功能能预测年轻人的表现，但不能预测老年人的表现。
The age benefit found in many naturalistic prospective memory (PM) tasks has been taken as evidence that PM performance in real life may be spared from aging. However, this conclusion lacks empirical confirmation. Hence, the aim of the present study was to examine possible age differences in the content of everyday PM intentions and their performance. Everyday PM was assessed in young and older adults using a diary approach. Results confirmed a general age benefit for real-life PM tasks. Importantly, this finding was qualified by revealing that the benefit only held true for specific types of intentions such as health and social intentions. Further, moderation analyses showed that the relationships between cognitive functioning and everyday PM were different for young and older adults. While better inhibition, short-term and long-term memory were related with successful PM performance in the young, this was not the case in the older adults. The present findings suggest that the age benefit found in naturalistic experimenter-given tasks extends to real-life PM performance, but may differ depending on the type of intention. Furthermore, cognitive functioning predicts performance in the young, but not in the older adults.