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Current events knowledge in adults
— an investigation of age, intelligence and nonability determinants | | Author(s) | Margaret E Beier, Phillip L Ackerman |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 4, December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 615-628 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Learning capacity ; Personality ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study expanded the scope of knowledge typically included in intellectual assessment, to incorporate domains of current affairs knowledge from the 1930s to the 1990s across the areas of arts and humanities, politics and economics, popular culture, and nature, science and technology. Results indicated that age of participants was significantly and positively related to knowledge about current affairs. Moreover, fluid intelligence was a less effective predictor of knowledge levels than was crystallized intelligence. Personality (i.e. opennness to experience) and self-concept were also positively related to current events knowledge. The results are consistent with an investment theory of adult intellect, which views development as an ongoing outcome of the continual influences of intelligence-as-process, personality, and interests, leading to intelligence-as-knowledge (as in Ackerman's "A theory of adult intellectual development: process, personality, interests and knowledge", 1996). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020206206 A |
| Classmark | DA: DE: DK: BB: 7T |
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