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Smith, Anderson D. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Examines the effects of adult age on response interference with organized recall with adults 20-80 years old. Results are discussed in terms of several explanations of response interference both with discrete recall of single items and with organized recall. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Females, Memory
Field, Dorothy; Honzik, Marjorie P. – 1981
Only a longitudinal study, in which retrospective reports can be verified against data collected earlier, can determine what topics tend to be reported accurately and whether certain types of individuals are more likely to be accurate reporters. A representative sample of women who became mothers 50 years ago are now part of the oldest and longest…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes
Waddell, Kathryn J.; Rogoff, Barbara – 1980
Although age-related memory differences in adulthood occur in a variety of memory tasks, most of these tasks represent uncommon memory demands. An investigation of everyday memory demands explored the effect of contextual organization on memory performance of middle aged (N=20) and older (N=20) women. Tasks involved reconstruction of spatial…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis