Article Comprehension Check 6

Question 1

The aim of the current study was to

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determine whether older
adults, who show the detrimental effect of part-list cuing, also
show the beneficial effect.

Question 2

In the remember condition, we expected to replicate
previous studies by finding a

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detrimental effect of part-list cuing in
younger and older adults

Question 3

In the remember condition, we expected to replicate
previous studies by finding a detrimental effect of part-list cuing in
younger and older adults (Andrés, 2009; Andrés & Howard, 2011;
Marsh et al., 2004). More important, on the basis of previous work
indicating that older adults show inefficient context reactivation
(e.g., Aslan et al., 2015; Kahana et al., 2002), in the forget
condition, we expected to find

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a beneficial effect of part-list cuing
in young adults, which should be diminished or even absent in
older adults

Question 4

The results are consistent
with the proposal that

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older adults show intact inhibition and blocking of competing information, but
reduced capability for episodic context reactivation.

Question 5

Preliminary analyses revealed that

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neither instruction order (re-
member first vs. forget first) nor list order (A-C first vs. B-D first)
yielded a main effect or an interaction effect with any of the other
variables (all ps .05). We thus collapsed the data across these
counterbalancing factors.

Question 6

An important finding from previous work is that older adults
can

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utilize and profit from context information, at least when the
information is (made) available during recall.

Question 7

The present study employed

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listwise directed forgetting to ma-
nipulate study context accessibility