The authors examined the role of cognitive operations in discriminations between externally and internally generated events (e.g., reality monitoring) in healthy and pathological aging. The authors used 2 reality-monitoring distinctions to manipulate the quantity and quality of necessary cognitive operations: discriminating between I performed versus I imagined performing and between I watched another perform versus I imagined another performing. Older adults had more difficulty than did younger adults when discriminating between memories in both versions of the task. In addition, older adults with Alzheimer’s-type dementia showed marked difficulties when attributing a source to imagined actions. The authors interpret these findings in terms of an age difficulty or the failure to use cognitive operations as useful cues during source monitoring.
The Role of Cognitive Operations in Reality Monitoring: a study with healthy older adults and Alzheimer’s Type Dementia / Fairfield, Beth; Mammarella, Nicola. - In: JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 0022-1309. - 136:1(2009), pp. 21-39. [10.3200/GENP.136.1.21-40]
The Role of Cognitive Operations in Reality Monitoring: a study with healthy older adults and Alzheimer’s Type Dementia
FAIRFIELD, Beth;
2009
Abstract
The authors examined the role of cognitive operations in discriminations between externally and internally generated events (e.g., reality monitoring) in healthy and pathological aging. The authors used 2 reality-monitoring distinctions to manipulate the quantity and quality of necessary cognitive operations: discriminating between I performed versus I imagined performing and between I watched another perform versus I imagined another performing. Older adults had more difficulty than did younger adults when discriminating between memories in both versions of the task. In addition, older adults with Alzheimer’s-type dementia showed marked difficulties when attributing a source to imagined actions. The authors interpret these findings in terms of an age difficulty or the failure to use cognitive operations as useful cues during source monitoring.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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