ERIC Number: EJ958057
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Publication Date: 2012-Apr
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Aging and IQ Effects on Associative Recognition and Priming in Item Recognition
McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger
Journal of Memory and Language, v66 n3 p416-437 Apr 2012
Two ways to examine memory for associative relationships between pairs of words were tested: an explicit method, associative recognition, and an implicit method, priming in item recognition. In an experiment with both kinds of tests, participants were asked to learn pairs of words. For the explicit test, participants were asked to decide whether two words of a test pair had been studied in the same or different pairs. For the implicit test, participants were asked to decide whether single words had or had not been among the studied pairs. Some test words were immediately preceded in the test list by the other word of the same pair and some by a word from a different pair. Diffusion model (Ratcliff, 1978; Ratcliff & McKoon, 2008) analyses were carried out for both tasks for college-age participants, 60-74 year olds, and 75-90 year olds, and for higher- and lower-IQ participants, in order to compare the two measures of associative strength. Results showed parallel behavior of drift rates for associative recognition and priming across ages and across IQ, indicating that they are based, at least to some degree, on the same information in memory. (Contains 4 figures and 11 tables.)
Descriptors: Priming, Intelligence Quotient, Word Recognition, Aging (Individuals), Memory, Young Adults, Older Adults
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