Table 2.

Recognition memory performance for young adults and older adults before and after semantic encoding strategy training

	Intentional encoding			Abstract/concrete
	Hits	FA	Hits–FA	Hits	FA	Hits–FA
Young (n = 17)	0.66 (0.16)	0.27 (0.14)	0.40 (0.18)	0.87 (0.12)	0.29 (0.16)	0.58 (0.19)
Old pretraining (n = 16)	0.60 (0.16)	0.34 (0.21)	0.26 (0.16)	0.75 (0.16)	0.36 (0.21)	0.39 (0.19)
Old posttraining (n = 16)	0.76 (0.20)	0.31 (0.19)	0.45 (0.25)	0.73 (0.21)	0.30 (0.18)	0.43 (0.20)

Note: Means and SDs (in parentheses) for recognition memory performance. Hits = proportion of old words receiving Remember or Know responses, False Alarms (FA) = proportion of new words receiving Remember or Know responses.