DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEMORY TESTS - WHAT THEY REVEAL ABOUT AGE-DIFFERENCES IN INTERFERENCE

Authors
Citation
M. Hartman et J. Dusek, DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEMORY TESTS - WHAT THEY REVEAL ABOUT AGE-DIFFERENCES IN INTERFERENCE, Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging and cognition, 1(4), 1994, pp. 292-309
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Developmental","Psychology, Experimental
ISSN journal
09289917
Volume
1
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
292 - 309
Database
ISI
SICI code
0928-9917(1994)1:4<292:DAIMT->2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The effects of interference on memory in younger and older adults were examined in a series of three experiments. In the study task, subject s were presented with a series of sentences, each having both a target , to-be-remembered ending, and a nontarget ending. Older adults showed equal priming of targets and nontargets on an indirect memory test (E xperiment 1), whereas younger adults showed greater priming of the tar gets. In contrast, on direct memory tests (Experiments 2 and 3) both a ge groups were more accurate for targets than nontargets. This pattern of results is interpreted as evidence that age differences in interfe rence involve selective attention mechanisms, but not elaborative rehe arsal processes.