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Inverted alphabet printing, rotary pursuit, and mirror tracking tasks were administered to 84 subjects in order to ascertain (a) reproducibility of reminiscence scores within and between tasks and (b)sex differences in reminiscence. With prerest performance levels held constant by second-order partial correlation procedures, reproducibility of individual reminiscence differences within tasks was significant but quite low, while predictability of reminiscence from one task to another was negligible. The sexes reminisced essentially alike on inverted alphabet printing, but females reminisced more than males on the other tasks, presumably because they were relatively more depressed by massed practice on these tasks. Thus, individual and sex differences were essentially task specific. Implications of results for reminiscence theories and for the credibility of alleged relationships between reminiscence and other organismic variables were discussed.
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This paper is based on a thesis submitted by the senior author in partial fulfillment of requirements for the MS degree at the University of Georgia.
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Huang, K.L., Payne, R.B. Individual and sex differences in reminiscence. Memory & Cognition 3, 252–256 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212907
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