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| Effects of age, education, and sex on response bias in a recognition task | | Author(s) | Jean Claude Marquié, Bruno Baracat |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 5, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp P266-P272 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Age groups [elderly] ; Educational status [elderly] ; Older men ; Older women ; Evaluation ; France. |
| Annotation | Hitherto, inconsistent results have been found with respect to age-related changes in decision criteria. The authors used data from a French longitudinal study (VISAT - Vieillissement, Santé, Travail), which aimed to investigate the relationships between occupational experiences, health, cognition, and ageing. Subjects were 3,237 current and former wage earners from all socioprofessional classes who were born in 1934, 1944, 1954 and 1964 (and aged 62, 52, 42 and 32). Each performed a word recognition task. Response bias was assessed with a non-parametric index derived from signal detection theory. The analysis 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 generalising age differences obtained from samples that are only partly representative, or are imbalanced with respect to education and sex. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001123206 A |
| Classmark | DB: DA: BB: F:V: BC: BD: 4C: 765 |
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