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Memory Processing: Does Memory become Less Reliable across the Adult Life Span?
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Running head: MEMORY PROCESSING Memory Processing: Does Memory become Less Reliable across the Adult Life Span? Student ID: 2540 (AP206) Southern Cross International College (Path Education Singapore) Does Memory become Less Reliable across the Adult Life Span? ABSTRACT This research proposal is to compare the performance of younger and older adults in terms of automatic and effortful information processing tasks on the hypothesis that automatic processing is performed equally well under incidental and intentional learning conditions, and that performance is not dependent on age, but rather, on the effects of intention and age, the automaticity of frequency-of-occurrence information, and appropriateness of cover task by Hasher and Zacks (1979). Based on their studies, some subjects were tested on recall of names of common objects known as effortful processing, while others gave frequency-of-occurrence estimations known as automatic processing. However, although their analysis of correct frequencies showed only significant effect of age for automatic processing, the...
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