. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 11.

Published in final edited form as: Mem Cognit. 2017 Jan;45(1):93–104. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0642-7

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

	Young Adults		Older Adults
	M	(SD)	M	(SD)
Age	19.33	(1.09)	71.76	(8.01)
Health	3.95	(0.81)	4.26	(0.85)
Medications	0.29	(0.60)	3.55	(2.31)
Education	12.49	(0.90)	15.78	(3.11)
Vocabulary	27.61	(3.90)	37.28	(1.55)

Notes. Health = self-reported health on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Medications = number of prescription medications taken. Education = years of education, with 12 indicating completion of high school and 16 indicating completion of college. Vocabulary = score out of 40 vocabulary items from the Shipley (1986) vocabulary test.