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A Preliminary Study of the Revised Anna Thompson Prose Memory Assessment in Older Adults

Day, Ellen Frances
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431010442

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2015, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Sciences and Health Professions.
Prose memory assessment has been used in neuropsychology since the first intelligence tests were developed in the 20th century (Yerkes, 1921). In the current study, a new method (Poreh’s Adaptation of Yerkes’ Logical Prose, PAYLP) for administering the Anna Thompson prose memory assessment was created by presenting the story three times to a sample of older adults. The researchers hypothesized that the multiple trial presentation of PAYLP would produce a positive logarithmic learning curve, and that participants would have the best memory performance on Trial 3 of the PAYLP. It was also hypothesized that age and education would correlate with PAYLP performance. A 3x3 repeated measures ANOVA (n=35) indicated a significant main effect of PAYLP Trial on memory performance. Paired samples t- tests showed significantly better performance on Trial 3 in comparison to both Trial 2 and Trial 1. There were significant learning curves for PAYLP (R^2 =.9979) and PNMT (R^2 =.9564). There were no significant correlations between education or age on PAYLP performance. The results suggest that significant learning for prose does occur with three trial presentation. Future research with a larger sample size and participants with brain injury are needed to establish whether this new adaptation accurately predicts memory and learning in comparison to the single trial presentation paradigm.
Amir Poreh, PhD (Committee Chair)
Boaz Kahana, PhD (Committee Member)
Christopher France, Psy.D (Committee Member)
Clinical Psychology; Psychological Tests; Psychology
prose memory; verbal memory; learning; psychological assessment

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  • Day, E. F. (2015). A Preliminary Study of the Revised Anna Thompson Prose Memory Assessment in Older Adults [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431010442

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Day, Ellen. A Preliminary Study of the Revised Anna Thompson Prose Memory Assessment in Older Adults. 2015. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431010442.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Day, Ellen. "A Preliminary Study of the Revised Anna Thompson Prose Memory Assessment in Older Adults." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431010442

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