44
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Strategic learning of people’s names as a function of expected utility in young and older adults

ORCID Icon, & ORCID Icon
Received 27 Sep 2023, Accepted 05 Feb 2024, Published online: 29 Mar 2024

References

  • Adelman, J. S., & Estes, Z. (2013). Emotion and memory: A recognition advantage for positive and negative words independent of arousal. Cognition, 129(3), 530–535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.014
  • Anderson, J. R., & Schooler, L. J. (2000). The adaptive nature of memory. In E. Tulving & F. Craik (Eds.), Handbook of memory (pp. 557–570). Oxford University Press.
  • Barresi, A., Obler, L. K., & Goodglass, H. (1998). Dissociation between proper name and common noun learning. Brain and Cognition, 37, 21–23. https://doi.org/10.1006/brcg.1997.0987
  • Biss, R. K., Rowe, G., Weeks, J. C., Hasher, L., & Murphy, K. J. (2018). Leveraging older adults’ susceptibility to distraction to improve memory for face-name associations. Psychology and Aging, 33(1), 158–164. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000192
  • Brédart, S. (1993). Retrieval failures in memory. Memory, 1(4), 351–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658219308258243
  • Brédart, S. (2017). The cognitive psychology and neuroscience of naming people. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, 145–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.10.008
  • Brédart, S. (2019). Strategies to improve name learning: A review. European Psychologist, 24(4), 349–358. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000363
  • Brédart, S., & Valentine, T. (1998). Descriptiveness and proper name retrieval. Memory, 6(2), 199–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/741942072
  • Brennen, T. (1993). The difficulty with recalling people’s names: The plausible phonology hypothesis. Memory, 1, 409–431. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658219308258246
  • Campbell, K. L., Hasher, L., & Thomas, R. C. (2010). Hyper-binding: A unique age effect. Psychological Science, 21(3), 399–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797609359910
  • Castel, A. D. (2007). The adaptive and strategic use of memory by older adults: Evaluative processing and value- directed remembering. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 48, 225–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-7421(07)48006-9
  • Cohen, G. (1990). Why is it difficult to put names to faces? British Journal of Psychology, 81(3), 287–297. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1990.tb02362.x
  • Cohen, G. (1994). Age-related problems in the use of proper names in communication. In M. L. Hummert, J. M. Wiemann, & J. F. Nussbaum (Eds.), Interpersonal communication in older adulthood (pp. 40–57). Sage.
  • Condret-Santi, V., Barbeau, E. J., Matharan, F., Le Goff, M., Dartigues, J.-F., & Amieva, H. (2013). Prevalence of word retrieval complaint and prediction of dementia in a population-based study of elderly subjects. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 35(5–6), 313–324. https://doi.org/10.1159/000342594
  • Cunningham, S. J., & Turk, D. J. (2017). Editorial: A review of self-processing biases in cognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(6), 987–995. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1276609
  • Devue, C., & de Sena, S. (2023). The impact of stability in appearance on the development of facial representations. Cognition, 239, 105569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105569
  • Devue, C., Wride, A., & Grimshaw, G. M. (2019). New insights on real-world human face recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(6), 994–1007. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000493
  • Festini, S. B., Hartley, A. A., Tauber, S. K., & Rhodes, M. G. (2013). Assigned value improves memory of proper names. Memory, 21(6), 657–667. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.747613
  • Fogler, K. A., James, L. E., & Crandall, E. A. (2010). How name descriptiveness impacts proper name learning in young and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, 17(5), 505–518. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825580903477245
  • Halamish, V., & Stern, P. (2022). Motivation-based selective encoding and retrieval. Memory and Cognition, 50(4), 736–750. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01238-2
  • Hanley, J. R. (2014). Retrieval failures for names of familiar people. In B. L. Schwartz & A. S. Brown (Eds.), Tip-of-the-tongue states and related phenomena (pp. 50–74). Cambridge University Press.
  • Hargis, M. B., & Castel, A. D. (2017). Younger and older adults’ associative memory for social information: The role of information importance. Psychology and Aging, 32(4), 325–330. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000171
  • Helder, E., & Shaughnessy, J. J. (2008). Retrieval opportunities while multitasking improve name recall. Memory, 16(8), 896–909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210802360611
  • James, L. E. (2004). Meeting Mr. Farmer versus meeting a farmer: Specific effects of aging on learning proper names. Psychology and Aging, 19(3), 515–522. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.515
  • Landauer, T. K., & Bjork, R. A. (1978). Optimum rehearsal patterns and name learning. In M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory (pp. 625–632). Academic Press.
  • Lovelace, E. A., & Twohig, P. T. (1990). Healthy older adults’ perceptions of their memory functioning and use of mnemonics. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28(2), 115–118. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333979
  • Maylor, E. A. (1997). Proper name retrieval in old age: Converging evidence against disproportionate impairment. Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, 4(3), 211–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825589708256648
  • McWeeny, K. H., Young, A. W., Hay, D. C., & Ellis, A. W. (1987). Putting names to faces. British Journal of Psychology, 78(2), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1987.tb02235.x
  • Morey, R. D. (2008). Confidence intervals from normalized data: A correction to Cousineau (2005). Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 4(2), 61–64. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.04.2.p061
  • Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2000). The name game: Using retrieval practice to improve the learning of names. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6(2), 124–129. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-898X.6.2.124
  • Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2002). The improved name game: Better use of expanding retrieval practice. Memory, 10(4), 259–266. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210143000371
  • Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., Jackson, L., Nichol, E., & Roberts, E. (2005). Strategies for learning proper names: Expanding retrieval practice, meaning and imagery. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(6), 779–798. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1115
  • Murphy, D. H., & Castel, A. D. (2022). The role of attention and ageing in the retrieval dynamics of value-directed remembering. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(5), 954–968. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211046612
  • Naveh-Benjamin, M., Guez, J., Kilb, A., & Reedy, S. (2004). The associative memory deficit of older adults: Further support using face-name associations. Psychology and Aging, 19(3), 541–546. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.541
  • Neuschatz, J. S., Preston, E. L., Toglia, M. P., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2005). Comparison of the efficacy of two name-learning techniques: Expanding rehearsal and face-name imagery. The American Journal of Psychology, 118(1), 79–102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30039044
  • Old, S. R., & Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2012). Age differences in memory for names: The effect of prelearned semantic associations. Psychology and Aging, 27(2), 462–473. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025194
  • Rendell, P. G., Castel, A. D., & Craik, F. I. M. (2005). Memory for proper names in old age: A disproportionate impairment? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 58A(1), 54–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000188
  • Stefanidi, A., Ellis, D. M., & Brewer, G. A. (2018). Free recall dynamics in value-directed remembering. Journal of Memory and Language, 100, 18–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.11.004
  • Tauber, S. K., & Rhodes, M. G. (2010). Metacognitive errors contribute to the difficulty in remembering proper names. Memory, 18(5), 522–532. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2010.481818
  • Terry, W. S. (1994). On the relative difficulty in recalling names and occupations. The American Journal of Psychology, 107(1), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/1423291
  • Weaver Cargin, J., Collie, A., Masters, C., & Maruff, P. (2008). The nature of cognitive complaints in healthy older adults with and without objective memory decline. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30(2), 245–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803390701377829
  • Weeks, J. C., Biss, R. K., Murphy, K. L., & Hasher, L. (2016). Face–name learning in older adults: A benefit of hyper-binding. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(5), 1559–1565. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1003-z

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.