The Effects of Pure Pair Repetition on Younger and Older Adults' Associative Memory

Autor/inn/en	Kilb, Angela; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe
Titel	The Effects of Pure Pair Repetition on Younger and Older Adults' Associative Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (2011) 3, S.706-719 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0022525
Schlagwörter	Repetition; Young Adults; Older Adults; Recognition (Psychology); Association (Psychology); Familiarity; Recall (Psychology); Age Differences; Missouri; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wiederholung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Älterer Erwachsener; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Assoziation; Abberufung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Although aging causes relatively minor impairment in recognition memory for components, older adults' ability to remember associations between components is typically significantly compromised, relative to that of younger adults. This pattern could be associated with older adults' relatively intact familiarity, which helps preserve component memory, coupled with a marked decline in recollection, which leads to a decline in associative memory. The purpose of the current study is to explore possible methods that allow older adults to rely on "pair familiarity" in order to improve their associative memory performance. Participants in 2 experiments were repeatedly presented with either single items or pairings of items prior to a study list so that the items and the pairs were already familiar during the study phase. Pure pair repetition (the effects of pair repetition after the effects of item repetition are taken into account) increased associative memory for older and younger adults. Findings based on remember and know judgments suggest that familiarity but not recollection is involved in mediating the repetition effect. (Contains 4 tables, 3 figures and 9 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10