Table 1.
Demographic characteristics (means and SDs) of young adults (students vs. workers), middle-aged adults and older adults (enrolled vs. unenrolled in the University of the Third Age).
Table 2.
Number of lapses in each specific subcategory in young, middle-aged and older adults respectively.
Table 3.
Mean (standard deviation) days of keeping a diary, percentage of failures recorded, and effect of keeping a diary on the number of failures in young adults (students vs. workers), middle-aged adults, and older adults (enrolled vs. unenrolled in University of the Third Age).
Fig 1.
Mean number of memory lapses as a function of type of lapse (prospective, retrospective, absent-minded) and group (young adults, middle-aged adults, older adults).
Error bars represent 1 SE of the mean.
Table 4.
Mean (standard deviation) number of memory lapses as a function of type of lapse (prospective, retrospective, absent-minded) and group (young adults, middle-aged adults, older adults).
Table 5.
Mean (standard deviation) number of failures for which consequences were reported as a function of type of lapse (prospective, retrospective, absent-minded) and group (young adults, middle-aged adults, older adults).