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GOMEZ CORREA, Abigail  e  VELIZ DEVOS, Mónica. Association, organization and mnemonic loci strategies that improve the short-term memory capacity of older persons in the free and serial memory: A quasi-experimental study. Rev. estud. exp. educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.40, pp.91-110. ISSN 0718-5162.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21703/rexe.20201940gomez5.

The accelerated demographic change that has occurred in recent decades has led to interest in our country in researching aging and proposing intervention programs aimed at preventing and/or delaying age-related cognitive decline. The present article shows the results of a quasi-experimental study whose purpose is to determine which strategies are effective in improving the immediate memory of older people whose ages fluctuate between 69 and 79 years. The performance of an experimental group (19 subjects with an average age of 75.6 years) and a control group (20 subjects with an average age of 73.6 years) in free and serial word recall was compared. The experimental subjects participated in a program that included training in immediate memory strategies (association, organization and loci method). The results showed that the treatment had a significant effect on the free memory of words: the association and organization strategies practiced in the intervention made the subjects in the experimental group remember more words than at the beginning of the treatment, compared to the control group. On the other hand, in the serial word memory there was no difference between both groups as an effect of the treatment, which would be due to limitations derived from cognitive aging, task difficulty and treatment characteristics.

Palavras-chave : Short-term memory; free recall; serial recall; memory strategies..

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