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The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition
- Psychological Review
, 1996
"... A theory is proposed to account for some of the age-related differences reported in measures of Type A or fluid cognition. The central hypothesis in the theory is that increased age in adulthood is associated with a decrease in the speed with which many processing operations can be executed and that ..."
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contributing to age-related differences in memory and other aspects of cognitive functioning is a re-duction with increased age in the speed with which many cog-nitive operations can be executed (Salthouse, 1985b). In this article, discussion of evidence relevant to the theory is restricted to the adult
Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being
, 1989
"... Reigning measures of psychological well-being have little theoretical grounding, despite an extensive literature on the contours of positive functioning. Aspects of well-being derived from this literature (i.e., self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpos ..."
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, purpose in life, and personal growth) were operationalized. Three hundred and twenty-one men and women, divided among young, middle-aged, and older adults, rated themselves on these measures along with six instruments prominent in earlier studies (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, self
A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory
- Psychological Review
, 1992
"... A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed. The theory proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in working memory varies among individuals. Individual differences in working memory cap ..."
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capacity for language can account for qualitative and quantitative differences among college-age adults in several aspects of language comprehension. One aspect is syntactic modularity: The larger capacity of some individuals permits interaction among syntactic and pragmatic information, so
Adult age differences in task switching
- Psychology and Aging
, 2000
"... Age differences in 2 components of task-set switching speed were investigated in 118 adults aged 20 to 80 years using task-set homogeneous (e.g., AAAA... ) and task-set heterogeneous (e.g., AABBAABB...) blocks. General switch costs were defined as latency differences between heteroge-neous and homog ..."
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Age differences in 2 components of task-set switching speed were investigated in 118 adults aged 20 to 80 years using task-set homogeneous (e.g., AAAA... ) and task-set heterogeneous (e.g., AABBAABB...) blocks. General switch costs were defined as latency differences between heteroge
Adult age differences in explanations and memory for behavioral information
- Psychology and Aging
, 1991
"... Adult age differences in explanations and memory for behavioral information. ..."
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Adult age differences in explanations and memory for behavioral information.
Adult Age Differences in Frequency Judgments of Categorical
"... Adult age differences were examined for relative frequency judgments on a task in which categories had either zero, one, three, or five instances in a study list. Judgments required selecting from pairs of category names which member had the greater representation of instances in the prior list. Con ..."
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Adult age differences were examined for relative frequency judgments on a task in which categories had either zero, one, three, or five instances in a study list. Judgments required selecting from pairs of category names which member had the greater representation of instances in the prior list
Design and Testing of an Adult Age-Independent Online Needs Assessment Tool and Development of Adult Age-Independent Design Guidelines
, 2003
"... evaluating the usability of an adult age-independent online assessment tool that includes health care related content and is centered on the needs and capabilities of both older and younger users and, (2) Developing adult age-independent design guidelines. An online tool, which was developed for a p ..."
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evaluating the usability of an adult age-independent online assessment tool that includes health care related content and is centered on the needs and capabilities of both older and younger users and, (2) Developing adult age-independent design guidelines. An online tool, which was developed for a
Adult Age Differences in the Functional Neuroanatomy of Verbal Recognition Memory
- Human Brain Mapping
, 1999
"... Adult age differences are frequently observed in the performance of memory tasks, but the changes in neural function mediating these differences are largely unknown. We used H 2 O positron emission tomography (PET) to measure changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during Encoding, Baseli ..."
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Adult age differences are frequently observed in the performance of memory tasks, but the changes in neural function mediating these differences are largely unknown. We used H 2 O positron emission tomography (PET) to measure changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during Encoding
Adult age differences in the time course of inhibition of return
- Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
, 2003
"... Inhibition of return (IOR) occurs when people are slower to detect a target that appeared at a previously cued location. Prior research has shown that younger and older adults display similar amounts of IOR, but this research has not examined the time course of the process. Because elderly people ma ..."
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may be slower to engage or disengage spatially based attention, the present experiment examined age differences in IOR at stimulus-onset asynchronies ranging from 50 ms to 3,000 ms. The results show that the peak magnitude of IOR was similar for younger and older adults, but the onset of IOR occurred
Skilled performance: Effects of adult age and experience on elementary processes
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
, 1982
"... Despite a general neglect in contemporary research of the role of practice on the performance of simple components of skill, considerable evidence indicates that ex-perience leads to substantial improvement in detection, discrimination, ani speeded classification. One goal of the present research wa ..."
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was to identify the mechanisms re-sponsible for practice-related improvement in such elementary tasks. A second goal was to determine whether there are adult age differences in the magnitude of practice-related improvement on simple perceptual and cognitive skills or in the mechanisms used to achieve
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