FREE AND CUED SELECTIVE REMINDING AND SELECTIVE REMINDING IN THE ELDERLY

Free and Cued Selective Reminding (FCSR) differs from Selective Remind ing (SR) because of a study procedure which controls cognitive process ing and a reminding procedure which allows for cued recall. Performanc e on FCSR and SR was compared in two studies to determine which test p roduces better recall and to identify the factors that account for the superior recall. When the tests were administered to very elderly nor mal subjects using the standard clinical protocol, twice as many words were retrieved from longterm memory in FCSR than SR. The second exper iment, which manipulated study and reminding conditions in a younger s ample of normal elderly, suggests that the improvement in free recall was due to the study procedure and the method of reminding.