Age differences in everyday problem solving
| Autor: | Wendy Loken Thornton, Theone S. E. Paterson, Sophie E. Yeung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Social Psychology
Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Cognition Interpersonal communication Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Education Developmental psychology Developmental Neuroscience Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Age appropriateness |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Behavioral Development. 37:13-20 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0651 0165-0254 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025412454028 |
| Popis: | Reductions in everyday problem solving (EPS) are often reported in older age, although it has been suggested that problem context may modify this effect. We evaluated the impact of two aspects of problem context: age appropriateness (age-neutral vs. older-age content) and problem type (interpersonal vs. practical) on EPS performance in 175 adults aged 18–87. Older adults generated fewer solutions to ill-structured EPS vignettes than younger and middle-aged adults. Middle-aged adults demonstrated an advantage on practical problems. While all age groups demonstrated a relative performance advantage for interpersonal content on older age problems, older adults showed the least relative benefit in this condition. Thus older adults do not exhibit relative performance gains on EPS problems designed to be most salient and relevant to this age group. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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