Chapter One Adult Age Differences in Activity Memory: Cue and Strategy Utilization

摘要: Summary Activity memory represents an important new paradigm in cognitive gerontology because it includes tasks that have ecological validity for older adults and are not as strongly influenced by strategic processing traditional verbal tasks. This review of the literature, including data, reveals magnitude age differences activity is types items been employed literature. In addition, impact motor object cues, organization discussed, with emphasis on notion may be controlled interaction these task characteristics. provides a generally familiar context learning affected ease remembering item-specific information. Consistent can explained degree to which supports or guides processing.