Effects of Age, Education, and Sex on Response Bias in a Recognition Task
| Autor: | Jean-Claude Marquié, Bruno Baracat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male Social Psychology Health Status Sensitivity and Specificity Task (project management) Developmental psychology Cognition Sex Factors Humans Young adult Recognition memory Memoria Age Factors Wechsler Scales Nonparametric statistics Middle Aged Response bias Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Mental Recall Word recognition Educational Status Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Gerontology Follow-Up Studies Demography |
| Zdroj: | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 55:P266-P272 |
| ISSN: | 1758-5368 1079-5014 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/geronb/55.5.p266 |
| Popis: | This study examined age-related differences in decision criteria and the extent to which inconsistencies in earlier findings could be due to sampling artifacts, especially the underlying effects of educational level and sex. Male and female participants (N = 3,059) from 4 age groups (32, 42, 52, and 62 years) and a wide range of educational levels performed a word recognition task. Response bias was assessed with a nonparametric index derived from signal detection theory. The analyses revealed no age differences except for the most educated subjects, for whom increased age was associated with stricter decision criteria. Lower levels of education and men as compared with women were associated with a more conservative bias. Controlling for the level of sensitivity did not significantly change this pattern of results. This finding stresses the need for caution in generalizing age differences obtained from samples that are only partly representative or imbalanced with respect to education and sex. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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