Table 2.

Strategy use frequency proportions for younger and older adults.

	Elaborative Strategy*	Sentence Generation*	Personal Relevance*	Visual Imagery	Rote Repetition	Other Strategy	No Strategy*	Forgot Strategy
Younger Adults	.57 (.24)	.17 (.22)	.26 (.16)	.33 (.22)	.23 (.27)	.12 (.19)	.11 (.16)	.11 (.10)
Older Adults	.45 (.27)	.09 (.15)	.15 (.16)	.28 (.20)	.23 (.31)	.10 (.21)	.20 (.29)	.10 (.15)

Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) for the proportion of hits (i.e., old words given Remember or Know responses) for which younger and older adults made each strategy response on the retrospective item-by-item strategy assessment.

^*Significant age difference (p < 0.05, one-tailed).