Process dissociations in cognitive aging
- One undisputed finding of cognitive aging research is that the two main clusters of intellectual abilities, fluid and crystallized abilities, exhibit differential age-related trends. Healthy older adults perform less well than young adults on almost any task that requires fast responses or taps the fluid or mechanical aspects of intelligence; they show much less of a decline, if any at all, in tasks requiring the access of their crystallized knowledge (Baltes, 1987; Horn, 1970). These age-differential trends are the prototype of what we will refer to as a process dissociation. We will show how process dissociations can be established within the domain of fluid intelligence that pass more stringent tests than is customary in experimental research on cognitive aging.
Author details: | Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Ulrich Mayr, R. T. Krampe |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-40428 |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 164) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 1995 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2010/01/05 |
Source: | Aging, health, and healing / Manfred Bergener ..., ed. - New York, NY : Springer, 1995, S. 171-183, ISBN 0-8261-8620-3 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |