注意分散对老年人错误记忆的影响

该实验以经典DRM词表为实验材料,采用简化后的联合范式来探讨注意资源对老年人错误记忆的影响。比较老年人和青年人在注意集中和注意分散条件下的错误记忆成绩。结果发现,老年组的虚报率显著高于青年人的虚报率,特别在注意集中条件下。更重要的是,老年人在注意集中条件下的虚报率与青年人在注意分散条件下的虚报率相比无显著差异,同时两种条件下的判断标准差异也不显著。结果显示,老年人相比于青年人有更多错误记忆的原因可能是注意资源的不足。

The Effect of Divided Attention on False Memory in Older Adults

The current study used the SCR paradigm to explore the influence of attention resources on false memory in older adults with the classical DRM vocabulary as experimental material.The memory performance of older adults and young adults under divided attention and full attention conditions was compared.The results showed that the false rate of the older adults was significantly higher than that of young people,especially under the condition of full attention condition.More importantly,there is no significant difference between the false rate of older adults under the condition of full attention and the false rate of young adults under the condition of divided attention.Meanwhile,the difference of the judgment standards under two conditions is also not significant.These results show the reason why the older adults have more false memory than the young adults may be due to insufficient attention resources.