ABSTRACT
While there exists an abundant amount of literature on the effects of aging on memory, priming, and classical conditioning, very little has been said about the effects of aging on category learning. Age-related declines in performance have been consistently found in tasks involving explicit memory, but normal aging has little to no effect on implicit memory operations (e.g. Light & Albertson, 1989). It is easy to assume, then, that category tasks that require the use of explicit memory will take longer for the elderly to learn than implicit memory categorization tasks.
