TAKING CHARGE OF REMEMBERING LOCUS OF CONTROL AND OLDER ADULTS MEMORYFOR SPEECH

Citation
Km. Riggs et al., TAKING CHARGE OF REMEMBERING LOCUS OF CONTROL AND OLDER ADULTS MEMORYFOR SPEECH, Experimental aging research, 23(3), 1997, pp. 237-256
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Geiatric & Gerontology",Psychology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0361073X
Volume
23
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
237 - 256
Database
ISI
SICI code
0361-073X(1997)23:3<237:TCORLO>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The relation between control beliefs and recall of spoken word lists a nd prose passages was assessed for 32 older adults, ages 62 to 85, in a task where they were given control over presentation of stimuli. The y differed in the degree to which they believed that factors within th eir control (internals) or outside their control (externals) affected their intellectual functioning; they were similar in age, education, v ocabulary, and digit span. They were required to stop the speech input at points of their own choosing to recall the stimuli on a segment-by -segment basis. Externals were more likely than internals to make inac curate predictions of the number of words they could remember and to c hoose longer segments than they could recall. Results suggest that ext ernals are poorer than internals in monitoring on-line memory processi ng.