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Dr. Lynn Hasher: Can you really have too much information? And, what happens when you do?
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Inhibition operates to filter, disengage, and suppress:

Filter out irrelevant information

Disengaged from no longer relevant information

Suppress competitors from coming to mind

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May (1999) found that it was more difficult for older adults (than younger adults) to ignore misleading distractors when solving the Remote Associates Test.
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Older adults outperform younger adults when tasks involve encoding distracting information.

They have greater access to total amount of information - TMI!

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Information from the past leaks into the present.

Compared to younger adults, older adults have more information in mind from the recent past whether it was previously relevant or not, and they sustain activation of the recent past.

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Yet another example of TMI - Compared to younger adults, older adults are more likely to strengthen, rather than suppress, competitors during fragment completion task.
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For better or for worse, inhibition seems to be inefficient for older adults.

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