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J Drevenstedt

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PubMed1993

Memory for self-generated narration in the elderly.

The story mnemonic technique, an effective encoding and retrieval strategy for young adults, was used as a procedure to study encoding and recall in elderly women. Experiment 1 (15 undergraduate and 14 elderly women) showed the technique to be reliable over 3 weeks and without practice effects in both age groups. In Experiment 2, 67 elderly women (mean age = 72 years) were found to make up 3 distinctive subgroupings in patterns of narration cohesiveness and recall accuracy, consistent with pilot data on the technique. A stepwise multiple regression equation found narration cohesiveness, an adaptation of the Daneman-Carpenter (1980) working-memory measure and vocabulary to predict word recall. Results suggested that a general memory factor differentiated the 3 elderly subgroups.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Achievement attributions by young and old judges as a function of perceived age of stimulus person.

Descriptions of task performances by young and old women were judged by young (N = 352) and old (N = 96) women on Weiner attributions of ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck, and on chronological age. The two tasks were an academic examination and a driver-license test. Age was more strongly endorsed for the failure of the older than of the younger performer. Conversely, age was more strongly endorsed for the success of the younger than of the older person. The interaction effect of stimulus age by outcome (success, failure) was significant for age attribution only. The only relationship between endorsement of age and ability attributions was found for the old stimulus person engaged in the academically oriented task.

Achievement↗
PubMed1981

Age bias in the evaluation of achievement: what determines?

This study hypothesized that there would be no sex or age biases in judged quality of a newspaper article previously rated sex- and age-neutral as to likelihood of authorship and readership. Undergraduates (53 males, 73 females) read a biographical resume varying author age and sex and either a well-written or poorly-written version of an article on gardening. A 2 (stimulus age) x 2 (stimulus sex) x 2 (article quality) factorial multivariate analysis of variance found only a significant main effect of article quality and, as predicted, no effects of stimulus age or sex upon article evaluation or authorship expectancy.

Achievement↗
PubMed1976

Perceptions of onsets of young adulthood, middle age, and old age.

Male and female undergraduates and older community volunteers were asked their opinions as to the age of onset of young man- and womanhood, middle-age man- and womanhood, and old man- and womanhood. Data indicated that older respondents generally judged onsets of both middle and old age to occur significantly later than did young respondents and that women retarded middle- and old-age onsets, compared with men respondents. Men were generally seen as reaching transition points at a somewhat later age than women. Both sex and age of perceiver, as well as sex of the perceived, are variables in the perception of onsets of middle and old age, with onset of young adulthood a relatively fixed age for all respondents. The results were not considered compatible with interpretation of sex differences in stage onsets based upon sex-related occupational-role discontinuities.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Scale-checking styles on the semantic differential among older people.

Two groups of older (60 plus) respondents, matched on age but differing in educational level, and a group of young university undergraduates were compared for scale-checking styles on the Semantic Differential. Subjects rated six concepts pertaining to stages of life on 27 pairs of bipolar adjectives. Although the three groups did not differ in frequency of endorsing extreme scale positions, the less well-educated older group showed a greater tendency to use fewer intermediate scale positions and more neutral midpoint positions than either the undergraduates or the group of retired professors emeriti. Data were interpreted as a propensity for older people to emphasize concrete, well-anchored scale positions in making ambiguous multiple-point scale discriminations, a tendency related to educational background but not to age per se.

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