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Volume 115 • Number 3

Fall 2002


 


Aging and effect of predictability on reality monitoring

NICOLA MAMMARELLA
University of Essex

CESARE CORNOLDI
University of Padova


This study compared the direction of source confusions and the effect of predictability on reality monitoring for internally generated information and externally derived information in younger (mean age 19–25) and older (mean age 70–85) adults. Participants were invited to listen to the conclusions of simple stories or to generate and imagine them. Conclusions could be either highly predictable (Experiment 1) or unpredictable (Experiment 2). The change in predictability produced changes in the direction of source confusions only in older adults. When a story ended in a predictable way, older adults attributed to imagination conclusions that were actually perceived, whereas the pattern of confusions tended to reverse with unpredictable stories.


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