Adult age differences in self-regulated learning from reading sentences

Article Abstract:

An examination was done to explore how age differences in self-regulated allocation of effort to text might contribute to memory deficits, or alternatively to compensation, in learning content. The data support a model of self-regulated learning in which readers reduce the discrepancy between current and optimal states of learning.

Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology)

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Age differences in emotional reactivity: The sample case of sadness

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An investigation of the age differences in the capacity to react to emotion-evoking stimuli is reported by focusing on a particular class of negative events namely fundamental and irreversible losses. Study showed that older adults experienced greater sadness to negative emotion-evoking events than their younger counterparts.

Aging, Repression (Psychology), Psychological research, Aging (Biology)

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Perceived self-efficacy domains as predictors of fear of the unknown and fear of dying among older adults

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The study tested the hypothesis that self-efficacy beliefs of older persons are significantly stronger predictors of death fears than are demographics, social support, and physical health variables used in earlier predictor models.

Influence, Time of death, Old age, Self-efficacy (Psychology), Self efficacy

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