Highlighting and reducing the impact of negative aging stereotypes during older adults’ cognitive testing
| Autor: | Marie Mazerolle, Isabelle Régner, François Rigalleau, Pascal Huguet |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (MSHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive (LPC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CeRCA), Université de Poitiers-Université de Tours-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive - Clermont Auvergne (LAPSCO), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Poitiers-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive (LAPSCO), Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours-Université de Poitiers, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Elementary cognitive task social cognitio General Chemical Engineering Psychological intervention social cognition General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology memory Issue 155 Borderline intellectual functioning Social cognition medicine Dementia Humans Cognitive Dysfunction Cognitive decline 10. No inequality Aged Aged 80 and over Stereotyping General Immunology and Microbiology behavior General Neuroscience aging Middle Aged medicine.disease neuropsychological testing 3. Good health Cognitive test Stereotype threat stereotype threat [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology Female Psychology Clinical psychology dementia |
| Zdroj: | Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, JoVE, 2020, 155, pp.e59922. ⟨10.3791/5992⟩ Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, JoVE, 2020, 155, pp.e59922. ⟨10.3791/59922⟩ Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2020, 155, pp.e59922. ⟨10.3791/59922⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1940-087X |
| Popis: | International audience; As life expectancy increases, aging has become a major health challenge, resulting in a huge effort to better discriminate between normal and pathological cognitive decline. It is thus essential that cognitive tests and their administration are as fair as possible. However, an important source of bias during cognitive testing comes from negative aging stereotypes that can impair the memory performance of older adults and inflate age differences on cognitive tasks. The fear of confirming negative aging stereotypes creates an extra pressure among older adults which interferes with their intellectual functioning and leads them to perform below their true abilities. Here, we present a protocol that highlights simple but efficient interventions to alleviate this age-based stereotype threat effect. The first study showed that simply informing older participants about the presence of younger participants (threat condition) led older adults to underperform on a standardized memory test compared with younger participants, and that this performance difference was eliminated when the test was presented as age-fair (reduced-threat condition). The second study replicated these findings on short cognitive tests used to screen for predementia in clinical settings and showed that teaching older adults about stereotype threat inoculated them against its effects. These results provide useful recommendations about how to improve older adults' memory assessment both in Iab studies and in clinical settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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