Sharps M J
Department of Psychology, California State University, Fresno 93740-0011.
Psychol Aging. 1991 Jun;6(2):309-12. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.6.2.309.
In 1987, Sharps and Gollin reported that the spatial memory of older adults is aided more than that of young adults by visually distinctive cues to location. In 1990, Park, Cherry, Smith, and Lafronza failed to reproduce these results. In the present study, strong category structure yielded results analogous to those of Park et al., and weak category structure similar to that of Sharps and Gollin yielded the same pattern of results as those in their study. The categorical interrelatedness of stimulus items was shown to be of potential importance in the resolution of the discrepancy between the 2 reports.
1987年，夏普斯和戈林报告称，与年轻人相比，视觉上独特的位置线索对老年人空间记忆的帮助更大。1990年，帕克、彻里、史密斯和拉夫龙扎未能重现这些结果。在本研究中，强类别结构产生的结果与帕克等人的结果相似，而弱类别结构产生的结果与夏普斯和戈林的结果相似，与他们研究中的结果模式相同。刺激项目的类别关联性在解决这两份报告之间的差异方面显示出潜在的重要性。
