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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > age-prospective memory-paradox

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age-prospective memory-paradox  

Definition

  • A memory phenomenon observed when older adults perform worse than younger adults on laboratory prospective memory tasks, but not on naturalistic prospective memory tasks.

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • age-PM-paradox

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Azzopardi, B., Auffray, C., & Juhel, J. (2015). L’effet paradoxal du vieillissement sur la mémoire prospective: hypothèses explicatives. Gériatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Viellissement, 13(1), 64–72. https://doi.org/10.1684/pnv.2014.0513

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Koo, Y. W., Neumann, D. L., Ownsworth, T., & Shum, D. H. K. (2021). Revisiting the age-prospective memory paradox using laboratory and ecological tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691752

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Rendell, P. G., & Craik, F. I. M. (2000). Virtual week and actual week: Age‐related differences in prospective memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.770

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Rendell, P. G., & Thomson, D. M. (1999). Aging and prospective memory: Differences between naturalistic and laboratory tasks. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 54(4), P256-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/54b.4.p256

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: free

  • • Schnitzspahn, K. M., Kvavilashvili, L., & Altgassen, M. (2020). Redefining the pattern of age-prospective memory-paradox: New insights on age effects in lab-based, naturalistic, and self-assigned tasks. Psychological Research, 84(5), 1370–1386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1140-2

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-LWZZWW1C-7

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