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Memory Strategy Instruction with the Elderly: What Should Memory Training be the Training of?

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Cognitive Strategy Research

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The research literature on providing memory strategies for the elderly is very new and incomplete. Most of the research on memory functioning in the elderly has focused on the explanation and locus of memory decline with age. Although a large body of literature on memory functioning in late adulthood now exists, issues concerning the extent, cause, and prevention of the decline are still vigorously debated (see Poon, Fozard, Cermak, Arenberg, & Thompson, 1980). Thus, one impediment in this research area has been the question: What should memory training be the training of (and can it work)?

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Roberts, P. (1983). Memory Strategy Instruction with the Elderly: What Should Memory Training be the Training of?. In: Pressley, M., Levin, J.R. (eds) Cognitive Strategy Research. Springer Series in Cognitive Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5522-2_4

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