Aging and Memory for Self-Performed Tasks: Effects of Task Difficulty and Time Pressure
| Autor: | Julie L. Earles, Dana M. Miccio, Alan W. Kersten, Beverley Berlin Mas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male Aging Elementary cognitive task Time Factors Adolescent Social Psychology Poison control Neuropsychological Tests Severity of Illness Index behavioral disciplines and activities Task (project management) Developmental psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Young adult Aged Aged 80 and over Memory Disorders Recall Memoria Human factors and ergonomics Cognition Middle Aged Self Concept Clinical Psychology Mental Recall Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Cognition Disorders Psychology Gerontology psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 59:P285-P293 |
| ISSN: | 1758-5368 1079-5014 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/geronb/59.6.p285 |
| Popis: | An increase in task difficulty or time pressure during the performance of cognitive tasks decreased the ability of older adults to recall the tasks. In Experiments 1 and 2, adult age differences in recall of cognitive tasks were smaller for easier than for more difficult tasks, and, in Experiment 3, adult age differences were smaller for recall of cognitive tasks without time pressure than for recall of cognitive tasks with time pressure. During difficult or time-pressured cognitive tasks, older adults may become anxious about their performance, and they may have trouble inhibiting negative self-evaluative thoughts about their performance. Older adults may thus devote less attention to aspects of the cognitive tasks that would be beneficial for task recall. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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