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Download full textHayslip, Bert, Jr.; Sterns, Harvey L. – 1975
One hundred and sixty-two subjects of three age levels were tested to examine the relationship between crystallized and fluid abilities and three problem solving tasks varying in the abstractness/concreteness of their stimuli and emphasis on past experience. These dimensions have been used by Davis to distinguish between Type "O" and Type "C"…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development
Gagne, Robert M. – 1971
In planning educational research, recognition needs to be made of five domains of learning: (1) motor skills, (2) verbal information, (3) intellectual skills, (4) cognitive strategies, and (5) attitudes. In being cognizant of these domains, the researcher is able to distinguish the parts of a content area which are subject to different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Educational Research, Generalization
Peer reviewedHayship, Bert – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1979
Participants aged 17-26, 39-51 and 59-76 solved concept problems to investigate intellectual correlates of concept identification as a function of stage of learning in adulthood. Differential ability-performance relations as a function of stage of learning were considerably less potent in the elderly v the young and middle aged. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
