Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age
This study investigated the relationship between general intelligence and implicit memory performance in conjunction with aging. Data have been collected from 95 volunteers (49 young-46 older adults). General intelligence was measured by the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test. Participa...
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| description | This study investigated the relationship between general intelligence and implicit memory performance in conjunction
with aging. Data have been collected from 95 volunteers (49 young-46 older adults). General intelligence was
measured by the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test. Participants’ implicit memory performance was
measured by the Word Stem Completion (WSC) task, in which the participants were presented with first three letters
of a word and asked to complete this stem with the first word that comes to their mind. Explicit memory performance
was also measured to be able to make a comparison with implicit memory performance and to document the
differentiation between implicit and explicit memory. Although the same WSC task was used to measure implicit and
explicit memory performance separately, the different instructions were used to deduce the different memory types.
According to the results of factorial ANOVA, the main effect of age on general intelligence score was found to be
statistically significant. After running further analyses by Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, results
indicated that RSPM test total correct score had a tendency to decrease with increasing age and RSPM test completion
time had a tendency to increase with aging. Results also showed that implicit WSC task score and RSPM test total
correct score were positively correlated. Similarly, explicit WSC task score and RSPM test total correct score were
positively correlated, too. However, RSPM test completion time did not differ depending on implicit and explicit
memory performances which were measured by WSC task. The present study indicated the relation between implicit
WSC task and general intelligence. Within this context, this study is important to draw attention to the contribution of
implicit memory measurement which is in the shadow of traditional explicit memory measurements to general
intelligence, especially in older population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1dceeb20693d4f2e9a799e68e3043fa72023-02-15T16:21:02ZdeuHacettepe UniversityHacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi1301-57372019-12-0136219820810.32600/huefd.43227887Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of AgeHande Kaynak0ÇANKAYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİThis study investigated the relationship between general intelligence and implicit memory performance in conjunction with aging. Data have been collected from 95 volunteers (49 young-46 older adults). General intelligence was measured by the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test. Participants’ implicit memory performance was measured by the Word Stem Completion (WSC) task, in which the participants were presented with first three letters of a word and asked to complete this stem with the first word that comes to their mind. Explicit memory performance was also measured to be able to make a comparison with implicit memory performance and to document the differentiation between implicit and explicit memory. Although the same WSC task was used to measure implicit and explicit memory performance separately, the different instructions were used to deduce the different memory types. According to the results of factorial ANOVA, the main effect of age on general intelligence score was found to be statistically significant. After running further analyses by Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, results indicated that RSPM test total correct score had a tendency to decrease with increasing age and RSPM test completion time had a tendency to increase with aging. Results also showed that implicit WSC task score and RSPM test total correct score were positively correlated. Similarly, explicit WSC task score and RSPM test total correct score were positively correlated, too. However, RSPM test completion time did not differ depending on implicit and explicit memory performances which were measured by WSC task. The present study indicated the relation between implicit WSC task and general intelligence. Within this context, this study is important to draw attention to the contribution of implicit memory measurement which is in the shadow of traditional explicit memory measurements to general intelligence, especially in older population.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/huefd/issue/39315/432278bilişsel yaşlanmagenel zekâörtük bellekaçık bellekkelime kökü tamamlama görevicognitive aginggeneral intelligenceimplicit memoryexplicit memoryword stem completion task |
| spellingShingle | Hande Kaynak Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi bilişsel yaşlanma genel zekâ örtük bellek açık bellek kelime kökü tamamlama görevi cognitive aging general intelligence implicit memory explicit memory word stem completion task |
| title | Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age |
| title_full | Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age |
| title_fullStr | Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age |
| title_short | Are General Intelligence and Implicit Memory Related?: The Effect of Age |
| title_sort | are general intelligence and implicit memory related the effect of age |
| topic | bilişsel yaşlanma genel zekâ örtük bellek açık bellek kelime kökü tamamlama görevi cognitive aging general intelligence implicit memory explicit memory word stem completion task |
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