Age-Related Differences in Intentional Forgetting of Prospective Memory

Bozdemir M., Cinan S.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGING & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, cilt.92, sa.3, ss.350-363, 2021 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 92 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/0091415019900165
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGING & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, AgeLine, CINAHL, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, EMBASE, Gender Studies Database, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.350-363
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: prospective memory, intentional forgetting, virtual week, aging, VIRTUAL WEEK, ITEM
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study investigated age-related differences in intentional forgetting (IF) of prospective memory (memory for actions to be performed in the future) in young (19-30 years) and late-midlife adults (LMA; 57-75 years). Prospective memory (PM) performance was examined by using the Virtual Week (VW) Task. An IF procedure was embedded into the VW task and the participants were instructed to forget some of the PM tasks that they were to remember and execute later on a virtual day. The study compared performances of the young and the LMA participants in the context of event- or time-based regular and irregular tasks. The results confirmed previous findings in showing that LMA participants exhibited worse PM than younger participants in lab-based tasks. In addition, although PM and IF performances separately have been shown to be affected by cognitive aging, larger age-related differences were not found in PM performance under IF conditions.