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Age-induced changes in seven types of errors usually associated with the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) are compared between young and older men and women. BVRT assesses short-term visual memory, perception and constructional abilities. Results show that distortion, omission and rotation errors frequently occur as a result of aging. Different error profiles have been noted among both men and women in the various age groups. Gender-wise, however, women have more rotation and omission errors than men and this is true for all age groups combined.
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Memory tests are conducted to examine age and gender differences in memory retention performance. These include two implicit tests of memory, one conceptually based (fact completion) and the other perceptually based (word stem completion), and two explicit tests of memory (word and fact recall). No age-associated difference was noted for the conceptually-based implicit test of memory, while significant differences, in favor of the young, were observed in the stem completion test.
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Subject Performance Tasks (SPTs) give some indication of the means of reducing differences in recall performances with age. Memory monitoring however, probably depends on specific characteristics of the stimulus. A study conducted on young and old women indicates that age differences in global prediction and recall performances are higher with verbal materials than with SPTs. Global predictions are more accurate and higher for SPTs than with verbal materials.
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