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Guild E.B. & Anderson N.D. 2012. Self-generation amplifies the errorless learning effect when conditions of transfer appropriate processing are met.. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, , .

Title

Self-generation amplifies the errorless learning effect when conditions of transfer appropriate processing are met.

Journal Name

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Abstract

Errorless learning improves memory for older adults by providing individuals with correct information from the onset, thereby minimizing the misleading influence of errors. Our previous research demonstrated that self-generation enhanced the errorless
learning effect among older adults in cued recall when encoding encouraged processing of cue–target relationships, suggesting that transfer appropriate processing is necessary for this interactive effect (Lubinsky, Rich, & Anderson, 2009, Journal of the
International Neuropsychological Society, 15, 704). The current study further tests this notion by investigating whether the interaction of errorless learning and self-generated learning is observed in free recall when study conditions foster encoding of inter-item associations. Healthy older adult participants studied related or unrelated words (manipulated between-subjects) under four within-subjects learning conditions representing the crossing of errorless/errorful learning and self-generated/experimenter-provided information. As predicted, self-generation enhanced the errorless learning advantage in free recall for related word lists but not unrelated word lists. The results are discussed in relation to the transfer appropriate processing view of generation effects.

Year

2012

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Authors

Guild E.B. & Anderson N.D.