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PERCEPTIONS OF FORGETFULNESS IN ADULTHOOD

成年后健忘的看法

基本信息

批准号：
6127018
负责人：
KATIE E CHERRY
金额：
$ 6.92万
依托单位：
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2000-05-01 至 2002-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6127018
关键词：
age difference aging behavioral /social science research tag human old age (65+) human subject interpersonal relations memory perception questionnaires social behavior social psychology young adult human (21-34)

项目摘要

This proposal focuses on adult age differences in impressions of forgetful persons in social contexts. Understanding how younger and older adults' view forgetful people is an important issue with implications for interpersonal relationships and social opportunities in late adulthood. Past research has documented an age-based double standard, where forgetful behavior in younger adults is attributed to lack of attention and effort, but the very same forgetful behavior in older adults is attributed to lack of ability and considered a sign of mental difficulty. Isolating the variables that may lead to differential impressions of forgetful younger and older people is an important step in understanding how older adults are perceived in social contexts. The objectives of the proposed research are to: a) understand how younger and older adults differ in memory appraisal of forgetful others; b) provide new evidence on the role of the consequences of the forgetting on people's perceptions of memory failures; and c) explore the influence of individual differences in knowledge of memory aging and self-reported memory ability on memory appraisal of others. Two experiments are proposed that utilize a person-perception paradigm. Participants read short vignettes that describe a fictitious character who has forgotten something and a minor consequence (merely an inconvenience) or a major consequence (causes greater problems) of the forgetting follows. Mixed factorial designs are used with participant age (young, old) and character age (young, old) as between-group variables and consequence (minor, major) as a repeated measures variable. Dependent measures include attribution and memory opinion ratings. In Experiment 1, the consequences of the forgetting are confined to the forgetful character. In Experiment 2, the forgetful character and others in his/her social environment experience the consequences of the forgetting. Expected results will provide new evidence on the role of person and situational variables in causal attributions of memory failures and a framework for further research on memory appraisal in adulthood.

这项建议的重点是成年人的年龄差异的印象健忘的人在社会背景下。了解年轻人和老年人如何看待健忘的人是一个重要的问题，对成年后期的人际关系和社会机会有影响。过去的研究记录了一种基于年龄的双重标准，年轻人的健忘行为归因于缺乏注意力和努力，但老年人的健忘行为归因于缺乏能力，并被认为是精神困难的标志。分离可能导致健忘的年轻人和老年人的不同印象的变量是理解老年人在社会环境中如何被感知的重要一步。本研究的主要目的是：（a）了解年轻人和老年人对健忘他人的记忆评价的差异;（B）提供新的证据，说明遗忘的后果对人们对记忆失败的看法的作用;（c）探索记忆老化知识和自我报告的记忆能力的个体差异对他人记忆评价的影响。提出了两个利用人感知范式的实验。参与者阅读简短的小插曲，描述一个虚构的人物谁忘记了什么，以及一个轻微的后果（仅仅是一个不便）或一个主要的后果（导致更大的问题）的遗忘如下。使用混合析因设计，参与者年龄（年轻，老年）和角色年龄（年轻，老年）作为组间变量，结果（次要，主要）作为重复测量变量。依赖措施包括归因和记忆的意见评级。在实验1中，遗忘的后果仅限于健忘的字符。在实验2中，健忘的性格和其他人在他/她的社会环境中的经验的后果的遗忘。预期的结果将提供新的证据的作用，个人和情境变量的因果归因的记忆失败和框架，进一步研究在成年期的记忆评价。