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Memory and Aging: Four Hypotheses in Search of Data

Memory and Aging: Four Hypotheses in Search of Data Older adults complain more about memory than younger adults. Moreover, in laboratory tests of memory, adults over 60 perform less well than adults in 0066-4308/9 1 10201-0333$02.00 LIGHT their 20s on free recall, cued recall, and recognition memory for lists of words or sentences (e.g. B urke & Light 198 1 ; Craik 1 977; Guttentag 1 985; Howe 1 988; Hultsch & Dixon 1 990; Poon 1 985) . Although such results might be attributed to the artificiality of standard laboratory tests of memory, older adults also score lower on memory tasks designed to have greater ecological validity (West 1 986). For example, older adults have poorer memory for prose passages (Cohen 1 988; Hartley 1 989; Zelinski & Gilewski 1 988b), for infonnation from simulated medicine labels (Morrell et al 1989) , for the buildings on the major thoroughfares of towns in which they have resided for long periods (Rabbitt 1989), for the appearance of common objects such as coins and telephones (Foos 1989b), for the activities they have perfonned (Kausler & Lichty 1 988), and for names and faces of people (Bahrick 1984; Cohen & Faulkner 1 986; Maylor, 1990b) . This chapter examines several http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Psychology Annual Reviews

Memory and Aging: Four Hypotheses in Search of Data

Annual Review of Psychology , Volume 42 (1) – Feb 1, 1991

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Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1991 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0066-4308
eISSN
1545-2085
DOI
10.1146/annurev.ps.42.020191.002001
pmid
2018397
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Abstract

Older adults complain more about memory than younger adults. Moreover, in laboratory tests of memory, adults over 60 perform less well than adults in 0066-4308/9 1 10201-0333$02.00 LIGHT their 20s on free recall, cued recall, and recognition memory for lists of words or sentences (e.g. B urke & Light 198 1 ; Craik 1 977; Guttentag 1 985; Howe 1 988; Hultsch & Dixon 1 990; Poon 1 985) . Although such results might be attributed to the artificiality of standard laboratory tests of memory, older adults also score lower on memory tasks designed to have greater ecological validity (West 1 986). For example, older adults have poorer memory for prose passages (Cohen 1 988; Hartley 1 989; Zelinski & Gilewski 1 988b), for infonnation from simulated medicine labels (Morrell et al 1989) , for the buildings on the major thoroughfares of towns in which they have resided for long periods (Rabbitt 1989), for the appearance of common objects such as coins and telephones (Foos 1989b), for the activities they have perfonned (Kausler & Lichty 1 988), and for names and faces of people (Bahrick 1984; Cohen & Faulkner 1 986; Maylor, 1990b) . This chapter examines several

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Published: Feb 1, 1991

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