Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 625-634.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.03

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The Effects of Value on Item Memory and Associative Memory in Older Adults

ZHANG Hongchi, MAO Weibin, CUI Huiyuan, AN Shu, LI Qingyuan   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358
  • Published:2023-09-11
  • Supported by:
    The project was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC1905301);National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078115,21776108,21690083,22008078).

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Abstract: Value can improve the performance of item memory in older adults. However, there are very few studies that have explored the effect of value on associative memory, and the outcomes were mixed. To deeply explore what factors could alleviate associative memory deficit in older adults, 20 college students in a university and 20 healthy older adults over 60 years old in a city were selected, we used low related picture-word pairs, and conducted two experiments to explore the effects of objective assigned value (Experiment 1) and subjective assessed value (Experiment 2) on item memory and associative memory in older adults. The results showed that value could differently affect item memory and associative memory in older adults, as demonstrated by there was no significant difference in high-value item memory between the older adults and the younger adults, but the associative memory of the high-value picture-word pairs was lower for the old adults than younger adults. Besides, subjective value had no effect on the associative memory of picture-word pairs in older adults. Together, these results suggest that high value can improve the item memory of older adults, but can not eliminate the age-related associative deficit.

Key words: value, older adults, item memory, associative memory, age-related associative deficit

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