Tehan, Gerald and Hauff, Helen M. (2000) Proactive interference effects on aging: is inhibition a factor? Australian Psychologist, 35 (3). pp. 249-254. ISSN 0005-0067
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Abstract
[Abstract]: Elderly people show memory deficits over short retention intervals. One explanation for this effect that has been proposed is that the elderly have problems with inhibiting irrelevant material. To test this proposition, younger and older adults were compared on a short-term cued recall task in which proactive interference was manipulated. Elderly people were expected to be more susceptible to PI than the younger group. While there were age differences in absolute levels of performance there was no evidence for differential susceptibility to PI. The error patterns were the same for both groups suggesting that over short retention intervals, inhibition processes do not deteriorate with age.
| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Additional Information: | Author version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | elderly, aging, short-term memory, short-term recall, inhibition, proactive interference |
| Fields of Research (FOR2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1701 Psychology > 170103 Educational Psychology |
| Subjects: | 380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 380100 Psychology > 380102 Learning, Memory, Cognition and Language |
| Socio-Economic Objective (SEO2008): | UNSPECIFIED |
| ID Code: | 1977 |
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| Deposited On: | 11 Oct 2007 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2011 12:47 |
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