Memory and aging: Four hypotheses in search of data

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 333-376

  Light, Leah L ^a  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Indirect tests of memory; Memory self efficacy; Processing resources; Semantic deficits in old age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; HUMAN; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026085060     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.42.020191.002001     Document Type: Article

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