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Peer reviewedByrd, Mark – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1986
Examined effects of enforced organizational strategies on the memory of older adults for textual material. Young and old adults sorted scrambled sentences of a prose passage into the correct order. When older adults were required to make an in-depth analysis to sort material, their incidental memory for textual information was approximately equal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Older Adults
