Oh, Honey, I Already Forgot That : Strategic Control of Directed Forgetting in Older and Younger Adults*
TLDR
Two experiments investigated list-method directed forgetting with older and younger adults and showed that age-related differences in directed forgetting occurred because older adults were less likely than younger adults to initiate a strategy to attempt to forget.Abstract:
This article is about age-related differences in intentional forgetting of unwanted information. Imagine receiving medication and reading the directions on how to take it. Afterwards, the doctor tells you to take a different dosage at a different time from that printed on the label. Updating the directions may necessitate intentional forgetting of the earlier-learned information. The current article took one approach to examining this issue by examining age differences in the effectiveness of intentional forgetting using the popular list-method directed forgetting procedure invented by R. A. Bjork, LaBerge, and LeGrand (1968).read more
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Intentional suppression of unwanted memories grows more difficult as we age.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the ability to intentionally regulate conscious awareness of unwanted memories through inhibitory control declines with age, highlighting differences in memory control that may be of clinical relevance in the aftermath of unpleasant life events.
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Remembering to Forget: The Amnesic Effect of Daydreaming
TL;DR: Results of two experiments support a context-change account of the amnesic effects of daydreaming, which suggests that daydreams that are more different from the current moment will result in more forgetting than daydreamed that are less different fromThe current moment.
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List-Method Directed Forgetting in Cognitive and Clinical Research: A Theoretical and Methodological Review
TL;DR: The authors provide an up-to-date review of the twenty-first century research and theory on list-method directed forgetting (DF) and related phenomena like the context-change effect.
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Intentional forgetting of actions: Comparison of list-method and item-method directed forgetting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the item-method of directed forgetting and obtained greater directed forgetting for VTs than SPTs, but only in the primacy region for SPTs.
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Aging and directed forgetting in episodic memory: A meta-analysis.
Cora Titz,Paul Verhaeghen +1 more
TL;DR: Age effects were reliably larger when the item method was used, suggesting that these effects are mainly due to encoding differences.
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List Method Directed Forgetting: Return of the Selective Rehearsal Account
Erin D. Sheard,Colin MacLeod +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a separate retrieval inhibition account of the list method is not parsimonious; rather, a selective rehearsal explanation can readily accommodate the principal results obtained under both procedures.
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The Appearance and Disappearance of Age Differences in Adult Memory
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Directed Forgetting in Older Adults Using the Item and List Methods
TL;DR: It appears that both older and younger adults engage in adaptive memory strategies, similar to how different presentation types lead to the use of different theoretical mechanisms of directed forgetting.