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Bias of Script‐Driven Processing on Eyewitness Memory in Young and Older Adults
Author(s) -
GarcíaBajos Elvira,
Migueles Malen,
Aizpurua Alaitz
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2854
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , recognition memory , developmental psychology , young adult , cognition , cognitive psychology , psychiatry
Summary We investigated the effects of script‐driven processing on eyewitness memory in young (aged 19 to 27) and older (aged 57 to 73) adults. Participants viewed a bank robbery video including high‐typicality and low‐typicality actions to examine the effects of the bank robbery script on recall and on immediate and 1‐week recognition. There were no differences between young and older adults in recalling high‐typicality actions, but recall of low‐typicality actions was poorer for older adults. In recognition, participants produced more hits and false alarms, adopted a more lenient response bias, and exhibited greater confidence for high‐typicality than low‐typicality actions, showing the script‐driven processing of the event, even in the long term, because the recognition interval only deteriorated performance for low‐typicality contents. Older adults had a higher proportion of false alarms, more lenient response bias, and higher confidence than younger adults, showing that bias of script‐driven processing is more evident in the elderly. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.