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Younger adults can be more suggestible than older adults
— the influence of learning differences on misinformation reporting | | Author(s) | Tammy A Marche, Jason J Jordan, Keith P Owre |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 21, no 1, Spring 2002 |
| Pages | pp 85-93 |
| Keywords | Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Learning capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Comparison ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Do differences in the strength of information originally provided influence adult age differences in susceptibility to misinformation? In this Canadian investigation, half of the younger and older adults watched a slide sequence once (one-trial learning) that depicted a theft; the other participants viewed the slide sequence repeatedly to ensure that all critical details were encoded (criterion learning). Three weeks later and immediately before final testing, participants were asked questions that contained misleading information. As expected, the degree of initial learning influenced age differences in misinformation reporting - that is, for the criterion learning condition, older adults were more susceptible to misinformation than younger adults. However, when memory of the event was poorer (in the one-trial learning condition), younger adults reported more misleading details than the older adults, possibly because they had better memory for the misleading information. Thus, strength of initial memory influences the extent and direction of adult suggestibility, and helps to explain the discrepancies found across studies in this area. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031024001 A |
| Classmark | SD6: BB: DE: DA: 48: 7S |
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