Age and premorbid intelligence suppress complaint-performance congruency in raw score measures of memory

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 397-405

  Merema, Matt R ^a   Speelman, Craig P ^a   Kaczmarek, Elizabeth A ^a   Foster, Jonathan K ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

classical suppression; older adults; subjective memory complaint; suppressor variable; verbal memory; visual memory

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84859097848     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610211001918     Document Type: Article

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