Environmental determinants of memory improvement in late adulthood.

摘要: Two studies were conducted with nursing home residents to determine whether memory could be improved. This was accomplished by increasing the cognitive demand of environment and then varying extent which motivated attend remember these environmental factors. In Study 1, motivation practice recommended activities manipulated degree reciprocal self-disclosure offered interviewers in a series dyadic interactions. 2, positive outcomes contingent on attending remembering activities, increased over time. Whether as function interpersonal (Study 1) or practical 2) incentives, engaging activity resulted improvement standard short-term tests, including probe recall pattern recall, well nurses' ratings alertness, mental activity, social adjustment for experimental groups relative controls.