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Recall of clustered and unclustered word lists in elderly adults
Author(s) -
Hart Robert P.,
Colenda Christopher C.,
Dougherty Linda M.,
Wade James B.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199205)48:3<341::aid-jclp2270480312>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , word list , word (group theory) , free recall , recall test , test (biology) , episodic memory , verbal memory , serial position effect , california verbal learning test , cognitive psychology , cognition , artificial intelligence , computer science , linguistics , psychiatry , class (philosophy) , paleontology , philosophy , biology
We present descriptive data for alternate forms of clustered and unclustered word list recall in 102 healthy elderly adults and test results for 11 patients with Parkinson's disease. The word list test provided a relatively stable measure of verbal memory. Alternate forms were equivalent except for a tendency of the unclustered list of Form 1 to be easier than those of the other three forms. Verbal intelligence, total word recall, and the ability to cluster related words at recall were related significantly. There were modest effects of education on word recall; female subjects tended to recall more words than males.