Adult aging and prospective memory: The importance of ecological validity

Louise H. Phillips; Julie D. Henry; Mike Martin

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Adult aging and prospective memory: The importance of ecological validity

Louise H. Phillips^*, Julie D. Henry, Mike Martin

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An important focus in the literature on prospective memory (PM) concerns the impact of adult aging on this important memory skill. In Brandimonte, Einstein, and McDaniel’s (1996) previous book on PM, Maylor (1996) reviewed the available literature on the effects of aging on a range of PM tasks and concluded that, for PM tasks in a naturalistic setting, “Older adults are at least as good as younger adults (and sometimes better)” (p. 182). In contrast, on laboratorybased PM tasks, “there is not a single laboratory study in the literature in which the elderly signicantly outperformed the young, although there are some studies in which older and younger subjects did not differ. In contrast, there are several reports of age-related impairments”

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Prospective Memory
Subtitle of host publication	Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives
Editors	Matthias Kliegel, Mark A. McDaniel, Gilles O. Einstein
Publisher	Taylor and Francis AS
Chapter	8
Pages	161-185
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Print)	9780203809945
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203809945
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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Adult aging and prospective memory: The importance of ecological validity. / Phillips, Louise H.; Henry, Julie D.; Martin, Mike.
Prospective Memory: Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives. ed. / Matthias Kliegel; Mark A. McDaniel; Gilles O. Einstein. Taylor and Francis AS, 2012. p. 161-185.

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