Part-Set Cuing Effects in Younger and Older Adults.

Abstract

In 3 experiments, the authors examined part-set cuing effects in younger and older adults. Participants heard lists of category exemplars and later recalled them. Recall was uncued or cued with a subset of studied items. In Experiment 1, participants were cued with some of the category names, and they remembered fewer never-cued categories than a free-recall condition. In Experiment 2, a similar effect was observed for category exemplar cues. There was also an age difference: By some measures, a small number of cues impaired older adults more than younger. Experiment 3 replicated this result and found that older adults were disproportionately slow in the presence of cues. Across experiments, older adults showed robust part-set cuing effects, and sometimes, they were disproportionately impaired by cues.

Intact retrieval inhibition in children’s episodic recall

“…Zacks et al (1996) reported evidence that older adults show impaired directed forgetting, whereas Moulin et al (2002) found robust retrieval-induced forgetting and Marsh, Dolan, Balota, and Roediger (2004) found robust part-list cuing in the elderly. Together with the present results on children's episodic recall, these findings on older adults' episodic recall indicate that retrieval-induced forgetting and part-list cuing develop early in life and remain intact for the greater part of the lifespan.…”

The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall

“…Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrate that this unintentional automatic inhibition appears early in childhood and remains intact for the greater part of the adult lifespan (e.g., Marsh, Dolan, Balota, & Roediger, 2004, for whole-word cuing effects in the elderly).…”

Supporting older and younger adults’ memory for recent everyday events: A prospective sampling study using SenseCam

“…One possible explanation for the apparent retrieval benefit observed in the SC conditions is that the presentation of images for a subset of events may have rendered the remainder of the events more difficult to recall. Part-set cueing is a form of retrieval-induced forgetting that has been observed in both younger and older adults (Marsh, Dolan, Balota, & Roediger, 2004). In typical part-set cueing procedures, participants study a list of items (e.g.…”