Younger and older adults’ associative memory for medication interactions of varying severity

Hargis, Mary B.; Castel, Alan D.

doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1441423

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“…Such selectivity is emphasized by participants' study decisions in Experiment 2, with higher magnitudes receiving more study visits (and thus more total study time) despite equivalent study time per visit with lower magnitudes. As such, these results add further evidence that participants are effective in prioritizing important information, consistent with a large body of work demonstrating preserved selectivity with various materials like unrelated word pairs (Ariel et al, 2015), name-face pairs (Hargis & Castel, 2017), medication side effects (Hargis & Castel, 2018), and item-location pairs (Siegel & Castel, 2018b), and under varying degrees of cognitive ability, like healthy aging (Castel et al, 2002;Hayes et al, 2013;Siegel & Castel, 2018a), Alzheimer's disease (Castel et al, 2009), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (Castel et al, 2011), and different working memory capacities (Griffin, Benjamin, Sahakyan, & Stanley, 2019;Middlebrooks et al, 2017;Miller, Gross, & Unsworth, 2019;Robison & Unsworth, 2017).…”

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Strategic encoding and enhanced memory for positive value-location associations

2020

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People often need to remember the location of important objects or events, and also to remember locations that are associated with negative objects. In the current study, we examined how both positive and negative items might be selectively remembered in the visuospatial domain. Participants studied number-items ranging from -25 to +25 indicating point values in a grid display and were instructed to maximize their score (a summation of correctly remembered positive and negative information; incorrectly placed negative items resulted in a subtraction from the overall score). Items were presented in a sequential, simultaneous (Experiment 1), or self-regulated format (Experiment 2) where participants controlled which items to study and the length of study time per item. In Experiment 1, participants selectively recalled high-magnitude over low-magnitude items, but also displayed a positivity preference in memory. In Experiment 2, we were able to determine whether this positivity preference was a result of bottom-up, automatic, or top-down strategic processes. Results indicated that participants explicitly chose to study positive items more frequently and for more total time relative to negative items, suggesting a deliberate strategy to focus on positive information. This bias for highly positive information suggests an overt points-gained approach, as opposed to a lossaversion approach, to remembering value in the visuospatial domain.

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“…This awareness of how much/often one forgets may lead to older adults to engage in responsible remembering. For example, when remembering allergy information or information about medications, older adults may be responsible in remembering by focusing only on what is most critical, perhaps to compensate for declines in memory (Friedman et al, 2015; Hargis & Castel, 2018; Middlebrooks et al, 2016). With increased task experience, older adults may engage in responsible remembering by systematically shifting their attention toward items of importance and also updating this information.…”

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Castel

2020

Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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“…Participants often fail to appreciate how much interference can detrimentally affect performance (Diaz & Benjamin, 2011), but interference often occurs in real-world medical situations (e.g., when a new medication can cause headaches as a side effect, while a previous medication was associated with dizziness; see Hargis & Castel, 2018b).…”

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Knowing what others know: Younger and older adults’ perspective-taking and memory for medication information.

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Castel²

2019

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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Health-related information can be important to communicate and remember, but we may not understand our own or others' memory abilities. In this study, younger and older adults estimated their performance before and after a cued-recall memory task in which they studied medication-side-effect pairs. Participants also estimated the performance of a peer their own age, a medical student, and a person in the other age group (i.e., younger adults estimated older adults' performance and vice versa). In Experiment 1, participants completed four study-test cycles, each with new pairs. In Experiment 2, the same pairs were presented throughout. Overall, participants initially overestimated their memory performance, but after the task, several judgments were closer to participants' actual performance and that of their peers. Thus, people may not initially have accurate representations of how they and others remember health-related information, but these misconceptions may be ameliorated by testing and task experience.

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Younger and older adults’ associative memory for medication interactions of varying severity

Cited by 24 publications

References 36 publications

Strategic encoding and enhanced memory for positive value-location associations

Strategic encoding and enhanced memory for positive value-location associations

Responsible Remembering

Knowing what others know: Younger and older adults’ perspective-taking and memory for medication information.

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