Specificity measures correlate more strongly across tasks for older adults than younger adults, suggesting semantic strategy reliance¶

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q2 i? Measures of generation and elaboration specificity were more strongly correlated across tasks for older adults than younger adults, which the authors attribute to greater reliance on semantic processes. → 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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Exploratory Pearson correlation matrix (Table 2) showed cross-task specificity correlations were "marginally correlated for the younger adults, but strongly for the older adults"; no effect sizes were printed in the text for this contrast.

"Across task, measures of generation specificity were marginally correlated for the younger adults, but strongly for the older adults."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Older adults produce fewer specific responses than younger adults in the generation task across both experiments — related
• Generation and elaboration specificity correlate for autobiographical memory but not for problem solving in both age groups — 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