Older adults produced more non-specific responses than younger adults only in the memory experiment, not in problem solving¶

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q3 i2 Older adults produced more non-specific responses than younger adults for memory (d = 0.79) but an equivalent number for problem solving (d = 0.05). → Peters 2019

Evidence¶

Peters 2019¶

Peters, S. L., Fan, C. L., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Episodic memory contributions to autobiographical memory and open-ended problem-solving specificity in younger and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 47, 1592–1605. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00953-1

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Follow-up ANOVA for the memory experiment found older adults produced more non-specific responses than younger adults, "Cohen 's d= 0.79"; for problem solving the difference was not significant (d = 0.05).

"whereas older adults ( M =2 . 5 6 ,SE = 0.19) produced more non-specific responses than younger adults ( M =1 . 4 4 ,SE = 0.19; t(47) =-3 . 6 2 , p = .003, Cohen 's d= 0.79)"

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