Testing-the-limits, expertise, and memory in adulthood and old age
- This research has three interrelated foci: (i) engineering and testing a cognitive model of expert memory, (ii) the study of intellectual reserve capacity and (iii) the use of a testing-the-limits methodology to magnify and delineate age differences in limits of reserve capacity. The assumption is that age differences are magnified if studied at high levels of expertise or task difficulty. Results from age-comparative point training studies in expert memory are reported. Both young and elderly subjects reached high levels of skilled memory, confirming the model. However, despite this sizeable reserve capacity, when compared to IQ-eguivalent young adults, superior elderly showed decline in upper limits of function.
Author details: | Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Jacqui Smith, Paul B. Baltes |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-39063 |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 147) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 1986 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2009/12/22 |
Source: | Human memory and cognitive capabilities : mechanisms and performances; symposium in memoriam Hermann Ebbinghaus -1885 - Berlin Humboldt University - 1985- / ed. by F. Klix and H. Hagendorf. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : North Holland, 1986, S. 395-407, ISBN 0-444-70069-2 |
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 |