Inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults: the role of working memory capacity in reducing memory errors.

@article{citeulike:1525034, abstract = {Two experiments examined inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults. Young and older adults took turns generating category exemplars in small groups, and after a short retention interval recall was tested and subjects were asked to generate new exemplars (i.e., exemplars not initially generated). When asked to generate new exemplars, older adults were more likely to repeat exemplars that had been generated earlier by others (i.e., generate-new plagiarism). When asked to recall the exemplars they had generated earlier, older adults were more likely to claim that they had generated exemplars that had been generated by others (i.e., recall-own plagiarism), and were also more likely to falsely recall exemplars that had not been generated at all. There were no age differences in confidence for items that were plagiarized on the generate-new task. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that age differences in generate-new plagiarism and false recall were entirely mediated by measures of episodic recall and working memory capacity. We conclude that inadvertent plagiarism errors result from the failure of systematic decision processes, and that controlled attention is important for avoiding memory errors.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1876, USA. david.mccabe@colostate.edu}, author = {McCabe, D. P. and Smith, A. D. and Parks, C. M. }, citeulike-article-id = {1525034}, issn = {0090-502X}, journal = {Mem Cognit}, keywords = {attention, jessica, memory, older\_adults}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {231--241}, posted-at = {2007-07-31 15:15:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults: the role of working memory capacity in reducing memory errors.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17645164}, volume = {35}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1525034 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1525034 N2 - Two experiments examined inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults. Young and older adults took turns generating category exemplars in small groups, and after a short retention interval recall was tested and subjects were asked to generate new exemplars (i.e., exemplars not initially generated). When asked to generate new exemplars, older adults were more likely to repeat exemplars that had been generated earlier by others (i.e., generate-new plagiarism). When asked to recall the exemplars they had generated earlier, older adults were more likely to claim that they had generated exemplars that had been generated by others (i.e., recall-own plagiarism), and were also more likely to falsely recall exemplars that had not been generated at all. There were no age differences in confidence for items that were plagiarized on the generate-new task. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that age differences in generate-new plagiarism and false recall were entirely mediated by measures of episodic recall and working memory capacity. We conclude that inadvertent plagiarism errors result from the failure of systematic decision processes, and that controlled attention is important for avoiding memory errors. IS - 2 JF - Mem Cognit SN - 0090-502X AD - Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1876, USA. david.mccabe@colostate.edu EP - 241 TI - Inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults: the role of working memory capacity in reducing memory errors. VL - 35 SP - 231 KW - attention KW - jessica KW - memory KW - older_adults AU - McCabe, DP AU - Smith, AD AU - Parks, CM PY - 2007/03// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17645164 ER -