Generation and elaboration specificity correlate for autobiographical memory but not for problem solving in both age groups¶

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q3 i? Specific responses during generation correlated with internal details during elaboration for the memory experiment in both age groups, but not for problem solving. → 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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Pearson correlational analyses across tasks found generation and elaboration specificity correlated for memory in both age groups but not for problem solving; no effect sizes were printed for these correlations.

"For the memory experiment, the number of specific responses during generation significantly correlated with the number of internal details produced during elaboration for both age groups."

Discussion¶

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• Older adults produce fewer specific responses than younger adults in the generation task across both experiments — related
• Specificity measures correlate more strongly across tasks for older adults than younger adults, suggesting semantic strategy reliance — related
• Older adults produce fewer internal details than younger adults during elaboration across both experiments — related
• Older adults produced more non-specific responses than younger adults only in the memory experiment, not in problem solving — related
• Older adults produced more external details than younger adults only in the memory experiment, not in problem solving — related
• Older adults describe less effective problem-solving solutions, producing fewer relevant steps than younger adults — related