... to focus on the effects of intention and age, the automaticity of frequency-of-occurrence information, and appropriateness of cover task. Introduction Wingfield, et al (1988) found that younger subjects performed better than older ones in tasks that demanded simultaneous storage of recently presented material, and processing of additional information. In the area of explicit and implicit memory, it was found that younger subjects are superior in explicit memory tasking that require intention to remember. As in the study demonstrated by Kausler and Hakami (1983), it was found that memory for activities that one was involved in, is a rehearsal-independent form of episodic memory. Despite being rehearsal-independent, they found that younger adults performed better. In support to these findings, Light and Singh (1987) reviewed the study of Kausler and Hakami (1983) and their results supported their findings that older adults do best when asked to recognize words they learned earlier and somewhat worse ...

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