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| Automatic category search and its transfer: aging, type of search, and level of learning | | Author(s) | Arthur D Fisk, Wendy A Rogers, Brian P Cooper |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp P91-P102 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The capability of younger and older adults to transfer from specifically trained stimuli to semantically related and unrelated stimuli was examined in this US study. Two experiments investigated whether learning in semantic category search is exclusive to trained elements of categories of generalisable to other elements of the trained categories. Specifically, the study examined how practice searching for small sub-sets of exemplars from taxonomic categories transferred to untrained elements of those categories. Younger and older adults received extensive practice on memory search (experiment 1) or visual search (experiment 2) tasks. Participants then transferred to conditions assessing whether learning was exclusive to the trained words or generalisable to other elements of the trained categories. The site of learning in memory search appeared to be at the category level for both younger and older adults. Level of learning in visual search appeared to differ as a function of age. Younger adults' learning generalised to the category level, whereas older adults' learning was specific to the trained word. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125240 A |
| Classmark | DB: DE: B: SD6: 7T |
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