THE DIFFERENTIAL DECLINE OF LEARNING ABILITY IN THE AGED AS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THEIR CONSERVATISM.
The article presents information on an experiment regarding the differential decline of learning ability in the aged. Three age groups were employed. Each group contained 40 individuals selected in such a way as to be comparable as to social background, native ability, and willingness to participate...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 329 - 338 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug1934
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| Sumario: | The article presents information on an experiment regarding the differential decline of learning ability in the aged. Three age groups were employed. Each group contained 40 individuals selected in such a way as to be comparable as to social background, native ability, and willingness to participate in the experiment. The youngest of the groups ranged in age from 12 to 17 years; the middle-aged group contained individuals aged 34 to 59 years; while the oldest group was made up of subjects whose ages fell between 60 and 82 years. All subjects were caused to learn five different types of material under objective conditions held constant for all groups. Two of the five tasks were of the motor learning variety. Three verbal tasks were employed. The first of these consisted in learning by the anticipation method a list of ten pairs of meaningful associates. It was argued that old associations would facilitate learning of this sort. All verbal materials were presented slowly enough to give all of the learners ample opportunity to read the items and attempt to anticipate the paired associate. |
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