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Direct linkHoe, Sony; Davidson, Denise – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
The purpose of the present research was to examine younger (7-years-old) and older (10-years-old) children's attitudes toward older individuals following one type of five primes: positive prime, negative prime, elderly prime, grandparent prime, or neutral prime. Overall, children's attitudes on three tests--Apperception, Semantic Differential, and…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Semantics, Semantic Differential, Grandparents
Peer reviewedAnooshian, Linda J.; Samuelson, Julie A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1986
Young, middle-age, and old adults ranked similarities of word pairs in a conditional rank-ordering task. Analyses of variance revealed an age-related decline in semantic processing but no such decline for elaboration. Older adults' retrieval was less compatible with initial processing than was the case for younger adults. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
