A Study on Changes of Attitudes and Interests During Later Years of Life

Riegel, Klaus F.; Riegel, Ruth M.

doi:10.1159/000269403

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“…For example, Riegel and Riegel [1960] studied adult age differences in strength of agreement with a variety of atti tudes. The elderly showed greater agreement than young adults with conservative attitudes only when they were stated in the third per son general.…”

Section: Response Set and Effect Ionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Are There Old People

Mergler¹,

Goldstein²

1983

Human Development

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Biological theories of adaptation are used to generate a model of human cognitive development in which physiological and cognitive changes in aged persons can be understood as an adaptive stage of development in its own right. These changes, within an appropriate societal context, make elderly individuals better able to perform certain tasks, or at least uniquely able to provide them, in ways which increase group survival. Emphasis is given to tasks involving oral transmission of information, especially in storytelling contexts. Several hypotheses are generated suggesting that one’s memory for content and evaluation of message may be significantly increased as the teller’s age increases; supportive data are described. The utility of the theory for generating further hypotheses is demonstrated in the final section of this article.

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Section: Response Set and Effect Ionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Are There Old People

Mergler¹,

Goldstein²

1983

Human Development

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“…Behavioral rigidity may be a way of describing the same kinds of relationships which Wallach and Kogan discuss in terms of caution-risk aspects of decision making. Further work like that of Chown (1961) and Riegel (1960) on behavioral rigidity will help to distinguish the sources of the response tendencies of the individual and lead to an improvement in our concepts of behavioral rigidity and intelligence.…”

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Age Differences in Response Speed as a Function of Controlled Variations of Stimulus Conditions: Evidence of a General Speed Factor

Birren¹,

Riegel²,

Morrison³

1962

Gerontology

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“…It is a seductive hypothesis for it promises continuity of cognitive functioning in the absence of disease, an explanation for the observation that, in general, variance increases with age (Heron & Chown, 1967;Riegel & Riegel, 1960) and for structuralist views of cognitive development that would otherwise lack any explanation for observed decrements in performance in old age.…”

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The terminal drop hypothesis: Fact or artifact?

Siegler

1975

Experimental Aging Research

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Findings from eight longitudinal investigations were reviewed in order to evaluate the terminal drop hypothesis. The concept of terminal drop was seen to be more useful when partitioned into its component parts: the relationship between the level of cognitive performance with survival and with distance from death, and the relationship between changes in cognitive performance and death. Health status and age at death emerged as important intervening variables in understanding the terminal drop concept.

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A Study on Changes of Attitudes and Interests During Later Years of Life

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

Why Are There Old People

Why Are There Old People

Age Differences in Response Speed as a Function of Controlled Variations of Stimulus Conditions: Evidence of a General Speed Factor

The terminal drop hypothesis: Fact or artifact?

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