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Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Badham, Stephen P. (2015) Data for Age Differences in the Implementation of Knowledge and Experience to Support Memory. [Dataset]
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Official URL: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/134740
Abstract
As the proportion of older adults in society continues to rise in the 21 century, geriatric research is becoming increasingly important. Ageing results in the decline of both physical and cognitive abilities and the most widespread cognitive decline is a reduction in memory ability. Recent research has found that when information is consistent with an individual’s knowledge and experience, it is easier to remember than abstract information and older adults appear to benefit from this effect more than do young adults. For example, when people are asked to remember an association between two words, age differences in memory performance are smaller for related word pairs (article-book, fatigue-sleep) compared to unrelated word pairs (article-lapel, fatigue-glass). It may therefore be possible to improve memory, particularly for older adults, by encouraging individuals to use knowledge and information that they are familiar with to support memory processes. The project will use a range of memory tests to investigate how people can use knowledge about the world to distinguish between different information in memory during retrieval; improve the chances of thinking in the same way when encoding information and when retrieving information; and reduce the amount of effort required to successfully encode and retrieve information.
| Item Type: | Dataset | ||||||
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| Alternative Title: | Experimental Ageing Data | ||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
| Type of Data: | Observational data | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Memory in old age | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Psychology | ||||||
| Official Date: | 18 December 2015 | ||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Media of Output (format): | .pdf .xlsx .doc | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Nottingham Trent University | ||||||
| Description: | Data record consists of 3 zip files, each with their own data file, codebook and ReadMe file, as well as the publication resulting. |
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