Aging and Lineup Performance at Long Retention Intervals: Effects of Metamemory and Context Reinstatement

Young (18-30 years) and older (62-79 years) adults ( N = 96) engaged in a 20-min live interaction with the future target in a lineup task. One month later, participants were interviewed about the events in the prior encounter (with or without context reinstatement), and then they saw a target-presen...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 2001-04, Vol.86 (2), p.207-214
Main Authors: Searcy, Jean H, Bartlett, James C, Memon, Amina, Swanson, Kristin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult. Elderly
Age
Age Differences
Aged
Ageing
Aging - psychology
Applied psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Contextual Associations
Developmental psychology
Experiments
Face
Face Perception
Face recognition
False identification
False Memory
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Identification
Identity parades
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Memory
Mental Recall
Metacognition
Metamemory
Middle Aged
Older people
Police lineups
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recall (Learning)
Retention (Psychology)
Self Efficacy
Social Environment
Studies
Visual Perception
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Summary:Young (18-30 years) and older (62-79 years) adults ( N = 96) engaged in a 20-min live interaction with the future target in a lineup task. One month later, participants were interviewed about the events in the prior encounter (with or without context reinstatement), and then they saw a target-present (TP) or target-absent (TA) lineup. The lineup was followed by the Benton Face Recognition Test ( A. Benton, A. Sivan, K. Hamsher, N. Varney, & O. Spreen, 1994 ), which correlated positively with accuracy in TP, especially for young adults. False identification in TA was associated with (a) higher scores on a memory self-efficacy scale and (b) higher recall of information about the initial event, although only for seniors. Results suggested that age-related increases in false identification generalize to ecologically valid conditions and that seniors' performance on lineups is negatively related to verbal recall as well as to self-reports of satisfactory experiences with memory in life.
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.86.2.207