The role of self-referencing in true and false recognition in young people and healthy older people

  1. Alfonso Pitarque 1
  2. Alicia Sales 1
  3. Encar Satorres 1
  4. Rita Redondo 1
  5. Juan C. Meléndez 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 29

Número: 3

Páginas: 341-345

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7334/PSICOTHEMA2016.273 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Psicothema

Resumen

Background: Given the uneven results about the role self-referencing plays in false recognition, we planned an experiment that would allow us to analyze whether self-referencing affects false recognition, and its relationship with healthy aging. Method: A sample of healthy older people (n = 30) and another sample of young people (n = 38) rated whether 40 personality-trait adjectives (20 with a positive valence and 20 with a negative valence) described them or not (self-referencing condition). They then took a recognition test of these adjectives along with 40 other new adjectives. Next, they rated whether 40 other different adjectives described a third person or not (other-referencing condition), and then performed another similar recognition test. These two conditions were counter-balanced across participants. Results: The results clearly showed that self-referencing produces both an increase in true recognition and a decrease in false recognition in both samples. Conclusions: Our results support the idea that self-referencing reduces false recognition by using conscious monitoring strategies, and that self-referencing is a suitable cognitive method for enhancing older individuals’ impaired memory.

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This research was supported by grant PSI2016-77405-R of the Spanish Ministerio de Econom?a y Competitividad (AEI/FEDER, UE).

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