Oh, Honey, I Already Forgot That : Strategic Control of Directed Forgetting in Older and Younger Adults*
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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.
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Remembering to Forget: The Amnesic Effect of Daydreaming
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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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Directed forgetting in implicit and explicit memory tests: A comparison of methods.
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework that integrates distinctive-relational processing theory with revised generation-recognition theory was proposed to predict directed forgetting in both implicit and explicit retention tests that provided the same stimulus conditions.
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A contextual change account of the directed forgetting effect.
Lili Sahakyan,Colleen M. Kelley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors propose that the costs and benefits of directed forgetting in the list method result from an internal context change that occurs between the presentations of 2 lists in response to a "forget" instruction.
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Attitudes toward older and younger adults: A meta-analysis.
Mary E. Kite,Blair T. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of the literature was conducted to examine the question of whether the elderly are viewed more negatively than younger persons has not been resolved; results demonstrated that attitudes toward the elderly were more negative than attitudes toward younger people.
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Disrupted Retrieval in Directed Forgetting: A Link With Posthypnotic Amnesia
TL;DR: In this paper, a midlist instruction to forget the first half of a list was found to reduce later recall of the items learned incidentally as well as those learned intentionally, which suggests that a cue to forget can lead to a disruption of retrieval processes.
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Predicting one's own forgetting: the role of experience-based and theory-based processes.
TL;DR: Results and others reported suggest that participants can access their knowledge about forgetting but only when theory-based predictions are made, and then only when the notion of forgetting is accentuated either by manipulating retention interval within individuals or by framing recall predictions in terms of forgetting rather than remembering.