Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Keith A. HutchisonRand, Kristina Marie2013-06-252013-06-252009https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/2103Older adults often show age-related declines in retrospective and prospective memory (PM). However, when memory is tested in a way that allows for reliance on familiarity, age-related declines are eliminated. Recent research has indicated that on a number of tests of PM, no age-related memory deficits were found. It is hypothesized that such tests allow older adults to rely on familiarity to detect the PM cue. The current study uses a PM task on which reliance on familiarity will lead to a measurable error that can be distinguished from a general PM deficit. It is hypothesized that older adults will make more familiarity-based errors than younger adults while performing worse overall.enAgingMemoryRecollection (Psychology)ThesisCopyright 2009 by Kristina Marie Rand