The primary aim of this experiment was to investigate the degree to which age differences in Yes/No recognition memory with similar foils are ameliorated when demands on recall-to-reject are reduced through the simultaneous presentation of targets and corresponding foils at test. To this end, we compared older and younger adults’ recognition memory performance across Yes/No and Forced Choice test formats. If age-related increases in false recognition in the Yes/No test arise solely as a result of impairments in the strategic retrieval and evaluation of item information, we should observe deficits in Yes/No performance coupled with intact Forced Choice performance. In contrast, age differences in Forced Choice performance would suggest that a reduction in the availability of disambiguating object details contributes to false memory errors among older adults.