Associations Between Control Beliefs and Response Time Inconsistency in Older Adults Vary as a Function of Attentional Task Demands.
Objective Control beliefs are established correlates of cognitive aging. Despite recent demonstrations that response time inconsistency (RTI) represents a proxy for cognitive processing efficiency, few investigations have explored links between RTI and psychosocial correlates. We examined associatio...
| Publicado en: | Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 75; no. 9; pp. 1819 - 1831 |
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