Title: Chapter One Adult Age Differences in Activity Memory: Cue and Strategy Utilization
Abstract: Activity memory represents an important new paradigm in cognitive gerontology because it includes tasks that have ecological validity for older adults and tasks that are not as strongly influenced by strategic processing as traditional verbal memory tasks. This review of the literature, including new data, reveals that the magnitude of age differences in activity memory is strongly influenced by the types of tasks and items that have been employed in the literature. In addition, the impact of motor and object cues, and organization are discussed, with an emphasis on the notion that age differences may be controlled by the interaction of these task characteristics. Activity memory provides a generally familiar context for learning and it is affected by the ease of remembering item-specific information. Consistent with the traditional verbal memory literature, age differences can be explained by the degree to which an activity memory task supports or guides strategic processing.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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