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Although her report contained acts that other individuals generated for preparing for airplane travel (e. g., assign seat, read), many acts were different from those that other individuals, both young and old, generated when asked the same question. The idiosyncratic acts included in her script me in a wheelchair) were related to her experience with airplane travel and reflected her personal habits and constraints. Our research suggests that such idiosyncratic acts are important as they guide her memory for new script-related events regarding airplane travel.
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Ross, B.L., Berg, C.A. (1992). Examining Idiosyncracies in Script Reports Across the Life Span: Distortions or Derivations of Experience. In: West, R.L., Sinnott, J.D. (eds) Everyday Memory and Aging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9151-7_3
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