Table 6.

Mean proportion of words and paired associates recalled for each age group as a function of point value and block in Experiment 2.

	Younger Adults				Older Adults
Value	Block 1	Block 2	Block 3	Block 4	Block 1	Block 2	Block 3	Block 4
Word Learning
2 points	.12 (.02)	.15 (.03)	.14 (.03)	.13 (.03)	.07 (.02)	.09 (.03)	.08 (.02)	.10 (.03)
4 points	.11 (.02)	.18 (.03)	.13 (.02)	.15 (.03)	.10 (.02)	.09 (.02)	.11 (.03)	.11 (.03)
6 points	.16 (.03)	.14 (.03)	.15 (.03)	.18 (.04)	.09 (.02)	.13 (.03)	.12 (.03)	.14 (.04)
8 points	.24 (.03)	.28 (.03)	.30 (.04)	.22 (.04)	.18 (.03)	.22 (.04)	.21 (.04)	.18 (.04)
10 points	.36 (.04)	.43 (.03)	.47 (.03)	.47 (.05)	.27 (.04)	.33 (.05)	.38 (.05)	.35 (.05)
12 points	.44 (.04)	.48 (.03)	.53 (.04)	.53 (.05)	.41 (.05)	.49 (.05)	.53 (.04)	.53 (.05)
Paired Associate Learning
2 points	.14 (.03)	.14 (.03)	.19 (.05)	.17 (.04)	.08 (.02)	.06 (.03)	.09 (.04)	.06 (.02)
4 points	.11 (.03)	.15 (.04)	.20 (.04)	.21 (.04)	.07 (.02)	.09 (.04)	.07 (.03)	.07 (.03)
6 points	.11 (.03)	.18 (.04)	.18 (.04)	.20 (.04)	.07 (.03)	.08 (.03)	.11 (.04)	.04 (.02)
8 points	.25 (.04)	.31 (.05)	.37 (.05)	.31 (.05)	.09 (.03)	.18 (.05)	.24 (.05)	.17 (.05)
10 points	.39 (.04)	.52 (.05)	.54 (.05)	.48 (.05)	.17 (.04)	.26 (.04)	.25 (.05)	.24 (.05)
12 points	.41 (.04)	.52 (.05)	.59 (.05)	.53 (.05)	.23 (.05)	.36 (.05)	.31 (.05)	.33 (.06)

Note. Standard errors of the means are in parenthesis.