The effect of age on the contextual cuing effect: an investigation into recognition memory
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2012
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This thesis investigated how contextual cuing varied as a function of stimulus features, awareness of the effect, and participant age. Young and old adults with 20/40 or better near-vision and good self-reported general health completed laboratory-based visual search and recognition tasks. Robust and reliable contextual cuing was found across all samples and conditions. Young and old adults showed equivalent contextual cuing. Varying task difficulty and the contextual information provided did not significantly influence the presence of contextual cuing. Across conditions, participants showed a disruption of contextual cuing once learned context was changed. In most situations this disruption was short-lived. Instructing participants to monitor displays for repetitions of particular displays did not impact the magnitude of the contextual cuing effect. Parametric sensitivity analyses showed that sensitivity for Repeated and Novel displays was at chance levels. Thus, it contextual cuing appears to be a primarily incidental process. Future research could be directed profitably toward the examination of age differences in naturalistic context effects.
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Bibliography: p. 72-79
Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
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Lyon, J. R. (2012). The effect of age on the contextual cuing effect: an investigation into recognition memory (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4559