Consistent with this possibility, although older adults displayed similar benefits to performance from the reinstatement of target details in the Forced Choice test as younger adults, age differences in this test format were still observed. This deficit indicates that impairments in strategic retrieval processes alone cannot account for older adults’ performance, and suggests an age-related decline in availability of stimulus details that can disambiguate targets and foils, as suggested by previous work (Burke et al., 2010, 2011; Ryan et al., 2012; Yeung et al., 2013). These results raise an important possibility. If object details that can successful disqualify lures are less available to older adults, this factor alone could be driving age-related impairments in the use of a recall-to-reject strategy in the Yes/No test by reducing older adults’ ability to detect a mismatch between targets and foils. Alternatively, it may be the case that even if the availability of object details were equated across groups, older adults would continue to exhibit deficits in Yes/No performance due to impairments in the ability to strategically retrieve and evaluate these details. We aimed to tease apart these possibilities in Experiment 2.