Research indicates the presence of an age-related pictorial processing deficit, for which the elderly may attempt to compensate
through the use of relational information. Cognitive asynchrony theory, a recent synthetic formulation which unites elements
of the generalized slowing hypothesis, environmental support theory, and the item-specific/relational information distinction,
has proven useful in a number of experiments in explaining these aspects of visual cognitive aging. The present experiments
tested this theoretical formulation under high processing demand conditions in both the relational and the pictorial/item-specific
realm. Young and older adults yielded a complex pattern of results consistent with the cognitive asynchrony synthesis of these
theoretical considerations. The present experiments add to the growing body of findings indicating that the cognitive subsystems
of memory decline at different rates, that the differences in cognitive processing between young and older adults tend to
be more quantitative than qualitative, and that the global age-related memory deficits of popular belief are in fact relatively
circumscribed and specific.
This research was supported by grant AG11605 from the National Institute on Aging, and by a grant from the College of Science
and Mathematics, California State University. 相似文献
Educable mentally retarded and nonretarded adolescents participated in incidental learning tasks that emphasized the utilization of processes that were consciously controlled but not deliberately aimed at memory (Experiment 1). Retarded individuals' performance on a standard recognition test was equivalent to that of nonretarded subjects following phonetic encoding and nonstrategic encoding, but was deficient following semantic encoding. Retarded subjects also demonstrated a lower level of performance on a rhyme recognition task. In Experiment 2, retarded subjects provided a pattern of responding identical to that of nonretarded subjects on a picture-word interference task designed to assess automatic processing. The two groups produced equivalent levels of semantic activation. It was argued that the results of the two experiments indicate deficient semantic processing on the part of retarded individuals relative to that of nonretarded individuals that cannot be accommodated by a structural-deficiency model, a developmental-lag model, or a hypothesis that predicts intelligence-related differences only when the task involves the use of deliberate mnemonic strategies. 相似文献
Previous studies have demonstrated that older adults can use visually distinctive cues to enhance their spatial memory performance
and their recall of the identities of items located in space. Other research has shown that older adults can also use relational
information to enhance recall. The relationship between relational and visuospatial support for memory across the adult lifespan
is complex and has been little explored. In the present study, this relationship was examined in tasks that measured free
recall for item sets possessing different degrees of visuospatial and relational support for recall. It was predicted that
both types of support would enhance older adult recall relative to that of the young, and that the two types of support would
synergize. The results were generally consistent with these predictions. These findings show that older adults can use relatively
simple relational or visuospatial support systems to enhance free recall significantly.
This research was supported by Grant AGI 1605, National Institute on Aging. 相似文献
It is widely acknowledged that metaphysical assumptions, commitments and presuppositions play an important role in science. Yet according to the empiricist there is no place for metaphysics as traditionally understood in the scientific enterprise. In this paper I aim to take a first step towards reconciling these seemingly irreconcilable claims. In the first part of the paper I outline a conception of metaphysics and its relation to science that should be congenial to empiricists, motivated by van Fraassen’s work on ‘stances’. There has been a considerable about of recent work devoted to van Fraassen’s ‘stance’ view, but it has not on the whole been noticed that the view has the potential to motivate a general empiricist conception of the relation between science and metaphysics. In the second and third sections I discuss two examples from biology to illustrate this conception: metaphysical punctuationism, and its relation to and influence on the thesis of punctuated equilibrium; and dialectical biology as defended by Levins and Lewontin.
The relation of seven coping dimensions to substance (tobacco, alcohol, marijuana) use was tested with a sample of 1,668 participants assessed at mean age 12.5 years and two yearly follow-ups. An associative latent-growth model showed one index of engagement (behavioral coping) to be inversely related to initial level of adolescent use and growth over time in peer use. Three indices of disengagement (anger coping, helpless coping, and hangout coping) were positively related to initial levels of peer use and adolescent use and to growth in adolescent use. Life stress was positively related to initial levels for peer use and adolescent use and to growth in adolescent use. Moderation tests indicated that effects of coping were significantly greater at higher level of stress; behavioral coping buffered the effects of disengagement. Effects of life stress were greater for girls than for boys. Results are discussed with reference to mechanisms of coping-substance use relationships. 相似文献
Values are a central personality construct and the importance of studying them has been well established. To encourage researchers to integrate measures of values into their studies, brief and ultrabrief instruments were developed to recapture the 10 values measured by the 40-item Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ; Schwartz, 2003Schwartz, S. H. (2003). A proposal for measuring value orientations across nations. In Questionnaire development report of the European Social Survey (pp. 259–319). Retrieved from http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/index.php?option=com_docman&;task=doc_view&;gid=126&;Itemid=80[Google Scholar]). Rigorous psychometric procedures based on separate derivation (N = 38,049) and evaluation (N = 29,143) samples yielded 10- and 20-item measures of values, which proved to be successful at capturing the patterns and magnitude of correlations associated with the original PVQ. These instruments should be useful to researchers who would like to incorporate a values scale into their study but do not have the space to administer a longer measure. 相似文献
Calibrationism is an intuitively plausible thesis about the relation between rational credence and expected reliability. But calibrationism is misguided. It relies on the base-rate fallacy, a classic mistake in probabilistic epistemology. Thus while calibrationism is intuitive, it cannot be correct. 相似文献
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict physical and mental health. We examined dyadic differences in intimate partner relationship health by ACE score among couples with low to moderate income enrolled in a relationship education program. Overall, we found a high prevalence of ACEs, disproportionate representation in the highest risk ACE group, and a significant effect between ACEs and indicators of mental and relational health. Implications for counselors include support for an ACE‐informed approach to couples counseling services, as well as a holistic and systemic view of mental and relational health. 相似文献