When older adults were shown a list of related items and then later shown another list and asked which of the items on the new list had been on the original list, older participants ____.

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Older adults are more prone to false recognition, meaning they are more likely to indicate that they recognise a word even though it was not on the original list. This is a common phenomenon called "retrieval-induced forgetting," where the act of recalling some items from memory (in this case, the items on the original list) can inhibit the recall of related items (items on the new list that were not on the original list). Therefore, older adults may mistakenly believe that a word was on the original list when it was not.

When Older Adults Were Shown a List of Related Items