Consistent with our first prediction, older adults with higher scores in representational quality exhibited superior Forced Choice performance, and exhibited larger benefits of the simultaneous presentation of targets and foils in the Forced Choice test, relative to those individuals scoring low in this measure. Critically, this relationship was observed even after accounting for individual differences in recall ability and executive function, consistent with the proposal that the Forced Choice test format enables a direct assessment of the availability of object details. The observation that the size of the Forced Choice benefit was selectively constrained by this factor is also consistent with the proposal that this test format minimizes demands on strategic retrieval processes, resulting in the availability of object details having a larger impact on performance. In contrast, we found that representational quality did not have a direct effect on performance in the Yes/No test, suggesting that the availability of object details is not sufficient to support a recall-to-reject strategy, likely because of the additional demands this test places on the ability to strategically retrieve, maintain, and evaluate stored details.