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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"Age differences"”.
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Age differences in coping with job loss
… sample of unemployed workers from a range of ages, this study investigated the experience of coping with the stressor of involuntary job loss from an aging perspective. Based on previous research, it was expected that the process of coping with involuntary job loss would differ across the …
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Age Differences in Reward Anticipation and Memory
… on the associative-recognition of either age group. Therefore, the age-related associative deficit was not improved by reward cues that preceded each stimulus pair.</p>
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Age Differences in Revision of Causal Belief
… WM tasks and that PFC functioning declines with age. The ability to comprehend and update text-based information requires an intact PFC and efficient WM and IR. The current study presented a series of messages about the investigation of a warehouse fire to 48 young and 48 older adults. One …
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Age Differences in Judging the Frequency of Events.
… Most of the available literature focuses on age changes in memory with respect to storage and retrieval deficits. However, a lack of evidence exists related to some of the more basic characteristics of memory decline due to aging.
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Age differences in search during self-regulated learning
… adults were able to take differential advantages of conceptual overlap across texts for learning the text in which was high in the amount of new information. The study extended theories in animal foraging and metacognition, and established a novel paradigm to better investigate adult learning …
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EXPLORING AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE RESOURCE MODEL OF DEPLETION
… ing task, but the effect did not differ across age. Future research should investigate the age difference in depletion using a task that is sensitive to depletion.
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A Multimodal Investigation of Age Differences in Inhibitory Control
… circumstances – is reduced in aging. Older age is also accompanied by changes in the structure and functioning of the frontoparietal network that supports cognitive control processes. This thesis examines the relationship between the white matter properties and functional recruitment of the …
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Age Differences in Working Memory Filtering of Distracting Information
Previous research has demonstrated that as people age, cognitive processes such as visual working memory (VWM) performance decline. One potential explanation for this age-related decline in VWM is that older adults have decreased inhibitory control relative to younger adults. This impairs older …
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Age differences in negative affective reactivity: do stressor types matter?
… (NA), which is formally termed as NA reactivity. Age is an important factor associated with different emotional advantages. However, findings about age differences in NA reactivity are mixed in the literature, such that some studies show older adults exhibit more NA reactivity than younger adults, …
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Age differences in the underlying mechanisms of product placement influence
… has provided new platforms for commercial messages. These products not only increase the number of ways in which advertisers can use to target us, but also change the way we interact with the media. We increasingly use these devices on the go, even attending to multiple screens at the same …
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Adult Age Differences in Processing Narrative Text: Managing Character Representations
… there has been no systematic investigation of age differences in the ability to manage multiple characters during narrative comprehension, this project was designed to examine those differences in this facet of language processing. Experiment 1 used a probe recognition paradigm to examine the …
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Adult age differences in information foraging in interactive reading environments
… two experiments were conducted to investigate age differences in the selection and study time allocation in learning about a topic from multiple texts. Younger and older adults explored texts that varied in information richness (i.e., sentence elaboration) and under different conditions of …
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Age differences in making credibility judgments of online health information
… to explore how the credibility cues in message contents, website features and user reviews, which are widely used for online medication information, could differentially impact younger (19 to 26 years of age) and older adults’ (58 to 80 years of age) credibility judgments. Results from the …
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Age Differences in Proactive Facilitation and Interference: The Role of Remindings
… of memory performance decline as a function of age. Among the situations that produce these differences are those in which proactive interference: PI) occurs. PI refers to impaired memory for new information as a result of previous learning of competing information. However, research has shown …
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Contextual differences in offense classifications: examining gender, race, and age differences
… may be increasing because gendered contextual differences are obscured in broad offense categories, meaning that girls and boys may engage in very different behaviors that lead to similar charges. This study explores the relationships between gender, race, and age and the contextual details of …
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Processing resources, cautiousness, memory self -efficacy, and age differences in free recall
Both experimental and individual-differences approaches were used in the present study to investigate the effects of processing resources, cautiousness, and memory self-efficacy on adult age differences in free recall performance. A total of 80 young college students (mean age = 23 years) were used …
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Age Differences in the Impact of Emotional Cues on Subsequent Target Detection
… is a change in the human visual system with age that reduces the amplification of negative emotive expressions by the amygdala. The current study used psychophysical data to determine if the rapid presentation of an emotional cue and subsequent perceptual target to older adults leads to the …
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