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Memory for Allergies and Health Foods: How Younger and Older Adults Strategically Remember Critical Health Information
Author(s) -
Catherine D. Middlebrooks,
Shan McGillivray,
Kou Murayama,
Alan D. Castel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbv032
Subject(s) - recall , affect (linguistics) , psychology , health information , medicine , cognition , age groups , gerontology , developmental psychology , demography , health care , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , communication , sociology , economics , economic growth
While older adults often display memory deficits, with practice, they can sometimes selectively remember valuable information at the expense of less value information. We examined age-related differences and similarities in memory for health-related information under conditions where some information was critical to remember.

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