Intellectual Abilities and Age
Intellectual Abilities and Age
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智力和年龄
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发表时间:
1987
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W. Cunningham
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作者:
W. Cunningham
This chapter is intended to review and evaluate psychometrically oriented studies of intellectual abilities and age. it includes a discussion of theoretical developments a d descriptive studies of structural differences and age changes in levels of abilities. Experimental studies of intelligence variables are also considered. In the broad sense that intelligence is used in this review (e.g., Guilford, 1967; Hm, 1980), some research on simple and choice reaction time studies is aIso included. Methodology is considered where parlicularly pertinent. Major areas not included are learning and memory, studies of clinical subgroups such as Alzheimer's or Down's syndrome patients, and studies of language or linguistic functioning and social cognition. Finally, the areas of terminal dropterminal decline and traininglintervention studies are excluded because the author feels that these areas merit separate reviews (also, see chapters by Thompson, Gong, Haskins, & Gallagher, and Willis, this volume). What are the objectives in studying intellectual functioning in relation to age? At a descriptive kvel, it is desired to understand, first, the structural characteristics of measures and how they change with age. This is a fundamental issue because approximate equivalence of structure is a key assumption in virtually all studies of 1eveI of performance. Also, at a descriptive level, an understanding of the age course of different intellsctual abilities is needed. For a long time there has been a tendency to broadly categorize individual ability tests as age-sensitive or not. With the development and application in aging studies of systematic taxonomies of intellectual ability factors, such as the h m a r y Mental Abilities or the Educational Testing Service Kit of Factor Referenced Tests (Ekstrorn, French, & Harmon, 19761, it is possible to begin categorizing at the level of constructs, which is apl to be more reliable than categorizing with regard to
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10.1093/geronj/41.4.486
发表时间:
1986
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Journal of gerontology
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作者:
Manton,KG;Siegler,IC;Woodbury,MA
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Woodbury,MA