Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Process and Systems Views of Aging and Memory

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Book cover Encyclopedia of Geropsychology

  • 104 Accesses

The order of authors is random; both have contributed equally.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bäckman, L., & Larsson, M. (1992). Recall of organizable words and objects in adulthood: Influences of instructions, retention interval, and retrieval cues. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 47, P273–P278.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baddeley, A. (1992). Working memory. Science, 255, 556–559.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baltes, P. B., & Lindenberger, U. (1997). Emergence of a powerful connection between sensory and cognitive functions across the adult life span: A new window to the study of cognitive aging? Psychology and Aging, 12, 12–21.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baltes, P. B., Staudinger, U. M., & Lindenberger, U. (1999). Lifespan psychology: Theory and application to developmental psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 471–507.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bjork, R. A. (1975). Retrieval as a memory modifier: An interpretation of negative recency and related phenomena. In R. L. Solso (Ed.), Information processing and cognition: The Loyola symposium (pp. 123–144). Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bower, G. H. (1970). Imagery as a relational organizer in associative learning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 529–533.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brickman, A. M., & Stern, Y. (2009). Aging and memory in humans. In L. R. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of neuroscience (Vol. 1, pp. 175–180). Oxford: Academic.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Burke, D. M., & Shafto, M. A. (2004). Aging and language production. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 21–24.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Craik, F. I. M., & Byrd, M. (1982). Aging and cognitive deficits – The role of attentional resources. In F. I. M. Craik & S. E. Trehub (Eds.), Aging and cognitive processes (pp. 191–211). New York: Plenum Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Craik, F. I. M., & Lockhart, R. S. (1972). Levels of processing – A framework for memory research. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11, 671–684.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Craik, F. I. M., & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 104, 268–294.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grady, C. L., & Craik, F. I. M. (2000). Changes in memory processing with age. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 10, 224–231.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hasher, L., & Zacks, R. T. (1988). Working memory, comprehension, and aging – A review and a new view. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 22, pp. 193–225). New York: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hofer, S. M., & Sliwinski, M. J. (2001). Understanding ageing – an evaluation of research designs for assessing the interdependence of ageing-related changes. Gerontology, 47, 341–352.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kausler, D. H. (1994). Learning and memory in normal aging. San Diego: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kempler, D., Teng, E. L., Dick, M., Taussig, M., & Davis, D. S. (1998). The effects of age, education, and ethnicity on verbal fluency. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 531–538.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Light, L. L. (1991). Memory and aging: Four hypotheses in search of data. Annual Review of Psychology, 42, 333–376.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Meyer, A. N. D., & Logan, J. M. (2013) Taking the testing effect beyond the college freshman: Benefits for lifelong learning. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two – some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63, 81–97.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2000). Adult age differences in memory performance – Tests of an associative deficit hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology – Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1170–1187.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Neisser, U., & Hyman, I. E. (2000). Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts. New York: Worth Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Roediger, H. L., III. (2008). Relativity of remembering: Why the laws of memory vanished. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 225–254.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning – Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17, 249–255.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ryan, E. B. (1992). Beliefs about memory changes across the adult life span. Journal of Gerontology, 47, 41–46.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Salthouse, T. A. (1996). The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Psychological Review, 103, 403–428.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shiffrin, R. M., & Atkinson, R. C. (1969). Storage and retrieval processes in long-term memory. Psychological Review, 76, 179–193.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Slamecka, N. J., & Graf, P. (1978). The generation effect: Delineation of a phenomenon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4, 592–604.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, C. D., Walton, A., Loveland, A. D., Umberger, G. H., Kryscio, R. J., & Gash, D. M. (2005). Memories that last in old age: Motor skill learning and memory preservation. Neurobiology of Aging, 26, 883–890.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tse, C.-S., Balota, D. A., & Roediger, H. L., III. (2010). The benefits and costs of repeated testing on the learning of face–name pairs in healthy older adults. Psychology and Aging, 25, 833–845.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tulving, E. (1962). Subjective organization in free recall of “unrelated” words. Psychological Review, 69, 344–354.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tulving, E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. In E. Tulving & W. Donaldson (Eds.), Organization of memory (pp. 381–402). New York: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tulving, E., & Osler, S. (1968). Effectiveness of retrieval cues in memory for words. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 593–601.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Underwood, B. J. (1957). Interference and forgetting. Psychological Review, 64, 49–60.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Witte, K. L., Freund, J. S., & Sebby, R. A. (1990). Age differences in free recall and subjective organization. Psychology & Aging, 5, 307–309.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zimprich, D. (2002). Cross-sectionally and longitudinally balanced effects of processing speed on intellectual abilities. Experimental Aging Research, 28, 231–251.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zimprich, D., & Kurtz, T. (2013). Individual differences and predictors of forgetting in old age: The role of processing speed and working memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 20, 195–219.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zimprich, D., & Martin, M. (2002). Can longitudinal changes in processing speed explain longitudinal age changes in fluid intelligence? Psychology and Aging, 17, 690–695.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zimprich, D., Rast, P., & Martin, M. (2008). Individual differences in verbal learning in old age. In S. Hofer & D. F. Alwin (Eds.), The handbook of cognitive aging: Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 224–243). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 47, 89081 Ulm, 89081, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Daniel Zimprich

  2. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Tanja Kurtz

Authors
  1. Daniel Zimprich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Tanja Kurtz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Daniel Zimprich .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Nancy A. Pachana

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore

About this entry

Cite this entry

Zimprich, D., Kurtz, T. (2015). Process and Systems Views of Aging and Memory. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_117-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_117-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore

  • Online ISBN: 978-981-287-080-3

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Social SciencesReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation