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Effects of age and anxiety on episodic memory: Selectivity and variability
Author(s) -
Li Juan,
Nilsson LarsGöran,
Wu Zhenyun
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2004.00387.x
Subject(s) - psychology , encoding (memory) , recall , anxiety , episodic memory , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , cognition , neuroscience , psychiatry
Li, J., Nilsson, L.‐G. & Wu, Z. (2004). Effects of age and anxiety on episodic memory: Selectivity and variability. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 45, 123–129. Selective age‐related differences in source memory relative to item memory, and individual differences in memory performance in relation to anxiety were explored with high‐ and low‐anxious subjects screened from normal young and elderly adults. They were read false facts about the locations of well‐known and unknown sights in a male or female voice. Intentional and incidental learning instructions were administered for source memory. Selective age‐related deficits in source memory were observed under both encoding conditions. Higher level of anxiety was related to lower memory performance only in the old group; this relation was stronger in source recall. The findings suggest that the presence of such selectivity is unrelated to the tradeoff between item encoding and source encoding. Anxiety affects the variability, and mediates the selectivity of age effects on episodic memory.