Effects of Aging and IQ on Item and Associative Memory

Autor/inn/en	Ratcliff, Roger; Thapar, Anjali; McKoon, Gail
Titel	Effects of Aging and IQ on Item and Associative Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140 (2011) 3, S.464-487 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
DOI	10.1037/a0023810
Schlagwörter	Intelligence Quotient; Aging (Individuals); Context Effect; Reaction Time; Accuracy; Recall (Psychology); Memory; Models; Correlation; Association (Psychology); Adults; Age Differences; Ohio; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Intelligenzquotient; Aging; Altern; Reaktionsvermögen; Abberufung; Gedächtnis; Analogiemodell; Korrelation; Assoziation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	The effects of aging and IQ on performance were examined in 4 memory tasks: item recognition, associative recognition, cued recall, and free recall. For item and associative recognition, accuracy and the response time (RT) distributions for correct and error responses were explained by Ratcliff's (1978) diffusion model at the level of individual participants. The values of the components of processing identified by the model for the recognition tasks, as well as accuracy for cued and free recall, were compared across levels of IQ (ranging from 85 to 140) and age (college age, 60-74 years old, and 75-90 years old). IQ had large effects on drift rate in recognition and recall performance, except for the oldest participants with some measures near floor. Drift rates in the recognition tasks, accuracy in recall, and IQ all correlated strongly. However, there was a small decline in drift rates for item recognition and a large decline for associative recognition and cued recall accuracy (70%). In contrast, there were large effects of age on boundary separation and nondecision time (which correlated across tasks) but small effects of IQ. The implications of these results for single- and dual-process models of item recognition are discussed, and it is concluded that models that deal with both RTs and accuracy are subject to many more constraints than are models that deal with only one of these measures. Overall, the results of the study show a complicated but interpretable pattern of interactions that present important targets for modeling. (Contains 6 tables and 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10