Results :: Individual ETD
Title: Aging and prospective memory: the role of cue familiarity
Creator: Rand, Kristina Marie
Description: Older adults often show age-related declines in retrospective and prospective memory (PM). However, when memory is tested in a way that allows for reliance on familiarity, age-related declines are eliminated. Recent research has indicated that on a number of tests of PM, no age-related memory deficits were found. It is hypothesized that such tests allow older adults to rely on familiarity to detect the PM cue. The current study uses a PM task on which reliance on familiarity will lead to a measurable error that can be distinguished from a general PM deficit. It is hypothesized that older adults will make more familiarity-based errors than younger adults while performing worse overall.
Location: http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/rand/RandK0509.pdf
Document Type: Masters
Contributor: Hutchison, Keith A. (committee chairperson)
Committee Members: Michelle L. Meade, Richard A. Block
Department: Psychology
Program: Applied Psychology
Publisher: Montana State University
Date Created: 2009-05-15
Access Rights: Accessible under copyright for educational purposes.