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M Baldwin

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PubMed1983

Reality orientation therapy--a controlled trial.

Sixty long-stay patients who were demented or withdrawn or both were randomly allocated to reality orientation or diversional occupational therapy and were assessed blind on two scales. Owing to a high drop-out rate only 19 organic and 19 functional patients satisfied reasonable criteria for inclusion in the analyses. Those treated by reality orientation therapy fared better than the controls but not significantly so. Initial test scores were no guide to outcome. The results suggested that both organic and functional patients benefited cognitively, but hardly at all behaviourally, from both types of treatment.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Age differences in integrated semantic memory for abstract sentences.

The Bransford and Franks [4] paradigm of linquistic abstraction was used to examine age differences in the nature of stored semantic information. Twenty-eight young (mean age 18.9 years) and 27 old (mean age 70.8 years) adults served as subjects. Specifically, age differences on two dimensions of memory were examined: (a) integration of related content from separate sentences and (b) retention of precise semantic content. Young and old were found to differ in the precision of retained semantic content. However, both age groups evidenced integration of information as indexed by a strong linear trend of recognition rate across sentence complexity and this trend did not interact with age, supporting the idea that both age groups showed comparable integration of abstract linguistic information into holistic ideas. The implications of these findings are considered in relation to current conceptualizations of age differences in memory, and new directions for research are proposed.

Adolescent↗