Habitual prospective memory and aging: Remembering intentions and forgetting actions

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作者
Einstein, GO [1 ]
McDaniel, MA
Smith, RE
Shaw, P
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[1] Furman Univ, Dept Psychol, Greenville, SC 29613 USA
[2] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[3] Univ N Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412 USA
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10.1111/1467-9280.00056
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Routine or habitual prospective memory tasks (e.g., taking medication) have the potential for creating conclusions regarding whether or not an action has already been performed. We del eloped a laboratory paradigm for examining the kinds of processes thought to be operating in these kinds of tasks. Younger and older participants were asked to perform an action once and only once on each of 11 trials. The results show ed that age and divided attention contributed to both omission and repetition errors. This new paradigm reveals memory failures in a habitual prospective memory task, and the,results demonstrate that older adults ale particularly susceptible ro these memory problems.
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