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Recall and Interpretation of Narrative Texts in College Students, Middle-aged, and Older Adults Groups

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2005, v.17 no.4, pp.509-527


& (2005). Recall and Interpretation of Narrative Texts in College Students, Middle-aged, and Older Adults Groups. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 17(4), 509-527.

Abstract

Adams, Smith, Nyquist and Perlmutter(1997) investigated the effect of aging on narrative comprehension and reported that older adults interpreted narrative texts in deeper and more integrative ways than younger adults. In their study, however, the educational level of the older adults was significantly higher than that of the younger adults, making it difficult to determine whether the superior interpretation ability of the older adults was due to the increased text comprehension experiences that older adults had, as Adams et al. proposed, or whether it was due to the added education experience of the older adults. This study compared the retell and interpretation ability of older, middle-aged, and younger adults with similar level of education. The results showed that when the level of education was equivalent, older adults' interpretations were no longer better than younger or middle-aged adults' interpretations. However, the pronounced age differences observed in text recall and recognition tasks disappeared when the depth and synthesisness of their interpretations were examined. These results suggest that the effects of aging on text comprehension vary depending on the stages of text comprehension. It seems that although the ability to recall the contents of the texts decreases with aging, the ability to interpret the texts remains relatively intact.

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글 이해, 이야기, 노인, 중년, 대학생, 연령 효과, text comprehension, narratives, effect of aging, text comprehension, narratives, effect of aging

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