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

Memory
Mary B Hargis, Alan D Castel

Abstract

While older adults face various deficits in binding items in memory, they are often able to remember information that is deemed important. In Experiment 1, we examined how younger and older adults remember medication interactions of varying severity. There were no age differences in overall memory accuracy, but older adults' performance depended on the severity of the interactions (such that the interactions associated with the most severe health outcomes were remembered most accurately) while younger adults' did not. In Experiment 2, a similar task was designed to create interference in memory. Even with this more difficult task there were no age differences in recall accuracy, and both age groups remembered the interactions with the severe outcomes most accurately. These findings suggest that, under certain circumstances, older adults do not face deficits in associative recognition accuracy of information that varies in importance.

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Mar 25, 2019·Open Psychology·Kristen C McGatlinHeather R Bailey
Apr 16, 2020·Memory & Cognition·Shawn T SchwartzAlan D Castel
Mar 26, 2021·Memory & Cognition·Alexander L M SiegelAlan D Castel
Dec 1, 2019·Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·Mary B Hargis, Alan D Castel
Dec 1, 2021·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Dillon H MurphyAlan D Castel
Oct 1, 2021·Annual Review of Psychology·Barbara J Knowlton, Alan D Castel

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