Effects of familiarity of task and choice on the functional performance of younger and older adults
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A study of the impact of familiarity and motivation on the ability of older people to perform cooking tasks has shown that younger people perform better on these tasks. Age-related decline does not appear to be offset by familiarity in this case, and studies carried out in the home back up those carried out in unfamiliar laboratories. The outcomes of both older and younger people may have been the same, but older people did not always use the most efficient methods. Allowing greater control over the tasks improved the performance of both older and younger people and did not affect the difference between the two groups.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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Differential age-related processing limitations in recall and recognition tasks
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Older adults tend to see a drop in their memory performance and this appears to result from limitations in processing resources. When tasks involved increased cognitive resources, the difference between the performance of older adults and younger adults was more noticeable. Tasks vary in terms of the types of processing resources they require. Recall performance tends to need processing speed, while recognition permance appears to use aspects of memory that are more automatic.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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