Relational integration, inhibition, and analogical reasoning in older adults
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The examination on the ability of younger and older elders to integrate multiple relations and inhibit irrelevant stimuli is done through a questionnaire from 31 younger, 36 middle-aged, and 27 older participants. The results reveal that young adults performed well at all but the highest level of relational complexity, whereas older adults performed poorly even at a medium level of relational complexity, especially when irrelevant information was presented.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2004
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The continuing effects of substantively complex work on the intellectual functioning of older workers
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Data on the psychological effects of occupational conditions was used to examine possible reciprocal causal links between intellectually demanding work and intellectual functioning. The results show that intellectual functioning and substantive complexity of work continue to reciprocally affect each other, and that intellectual flexibility correlates with more standard measure of intellectual functioning.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1999
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The reciprocal effects of leisure time activities and intellectual functioning in older people: a longitudinal analysis
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Research examines the role played by leisure time intellectual activity pursuits on maintaining or enhancing the cognitive functions in older adults. Results demonstrate that engaging in substantively complex tasks in old age helps build the capacity to tackle intellectual challenges of complex environments.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2001
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