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Bias effects in word fragment completion in young and older adults.
Full Abstract
Young and older adults were tested on a word fragment completion task in which correct solutions were studied words, words orthographically similar to studied words, or new words. In Experiments 1 and 2, the standard production version of the word fragment completion task was used; older adults had reduced benefits of prior exposure to target words and slightly decreased costs. However, costs and benefits did not differ across age in a forced-choice version of the task (Experiment 3). At a behavioral level, the results are contrary to predictions that age differences in word fragment completion priming effects will be greater when there is a strong competitor for the correct solution and that age differences in both costs and benefits will be smaller for identification than for production tasks. Theoretical implications of these findings are considered.
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Author information
Author/s: Light, Leah L (LL); Kennison, Robert F (RF); Healy, Michael R (MR);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Pitzer College, Claremont, California 91711, USA. llight@hal.pitzer.edu
Grants: AG0 2452 (Agency:United States NIA)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Memory & cognition (Mem Cognit), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 30 (issue 8) : pp 1204-18
Dates: Created 2003/03/28; Completed 2003/04/23; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12661852, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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