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47 Premorbid Intellectual Functioning and Not Education Predicts Memory Performance Virtual Environment Grocery Store
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2023
Abstract
Previous research has found that measures of premorbid intellectual functioning may be predictive of performance on memory tasks among older adults (Duff, 2010). Intellectual functioning itself is correlated with education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incremental validity of a measure of premorbid intellectual functioning over education levels to predict performance on the Virtual Environment Grocery Store (VEGS), which involves a simulated shopping experience assessing learning, memory, and executive functioning.
Older adults (N = 118, 60.2% female, age 60-90, M = 73.51, SD = 7.46) completed the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading and the VEGS.
WTAR and education level explained 9.4% of the variance in VEGS long delay free recall, F = 5.97, p = 0.003). WTAR was a significant predictor (ß = 0.25, p = 0.006), while level of education was not.
These results suggest that crystalized intelligence may benefit recall on a virtual reality shopping task.
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