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| Cognitive skill acquisition and transfer in younger and older adults | | Author(s) | Dayna R Touron, William J Hoyer, John Cerella |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 4, December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 555-563 |
| Keywords | Learning capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The acquisition of cognitive skills often depends on one of (or a combination of) two processes: the execution of an algorithm, and the retrieval of problem instances. This study examined the effects of age and repetition of problem instances on the production and verification of solutions to two serially presented sets of alphabet arithmetic problems. Analyses of the parameters derived from power function fits for individuals revealed age differences, favouring young adults in improvement span, learning rate and asymptote. For both age groups, the beneficial effects of repetitions on 1st-set response times were attributable to algorithmic speed-up and to the retrieval of instances, whereas improvements in the speed of 2nd-set response times were attributable primarily to item retrieval. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020206201 A |
| Classmark | DE: DA: BB: SD6: 48: 7T |
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