Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ355299
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Publication Date: 1986
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Personality and Metamemory Correlates of Memory Performance in Younger and Older Adults.
Cavanaugh, John C.; Murphy, Nancy Zuidema
Educational Gerontology, v12 n4 p385-94 1986
Assessed degree to which anxiety, hostility, depression, and metamemory predicted recall performance on word list and prose passage. Results from 65 older and 65 younger adults indicated different patterns of personality predictors and some consistent metamemory predictors across tasks. Different measures of anxiety related differently to performance. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Memory, Older Adults, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Prose, Recall (Psychology), Word Lists, Young Adults
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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