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| Effects of familiarity of task and choice on the functional performance of younger and older adults | | Author(s) | Anne E Dickerson, Anne G Fisher |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 247-254 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Learning capacity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Mature adults ; Young adults [20-25] ; Performance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study compares the relation between age and motor and process skills of younger and older adults on familiar and unfamiliar tasks under two conditions of perceived control. Familiar tasks were simple cooking tasks; the unfamiliar tasks were contrived, meaningless ones developed for the study. There were no differences on the familiarity of the tasks; but results from the two Age/Task/Choice analyses of variance demonstrated significant age differences for motor and process skills under all conditions. This suggests that older adults demonstrate age-related decline, even with activities that take motivational, experiential, and ecological validity components into account. For the process skills scale, there was also a significant main effect for choice. Results support the concept that perceived control may improve performance, but not differentially for older adults; that is, younger and older adults both demonstrated improved process performance when given their choice of tasks. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120254 A |
| Classmark | DA: DE: BB: SDM: SD6: 5H: 7T |
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