AGE EFFECTS ON AUTOMATIC AND EFFORTFUL INFORMATION PROCESSING

本研究的目的是探讨老龄化对老年人的影响。 发展和制定自动和努力的注意力过程。 这一目的是通过受控实验室研究实现的。 该实验室以前的研究，调查了 年轻人、中年人和老年人的自动视觉检测， 成年人在大量练习后无法达到自动检测。 一个 另外一系列的实验证实了老年人的失败 开发自动检测不是由于项目的性质， 检测到的、练习不足、练习时间表或响应 竞争 自动检测被视为第二个层次的结果 学习，“优先”学习。 该项目的未来将 是对老年人能够超越第一个人的程度的考察。 学习水平，即，“联想”学习，优先学习， 建立了注意力系统的直接和立即的反应， 要检测的项目。 这个项目的意义在于规划和核算 自动视觉检测发展的成熟变化， 在我们的日常生活中扮演着如此重要的角色。

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of aging upon the development and enactment of automatic and effortful attentional processes. The purpose is accomplished through controlled laboratory studies. Previous research in this laboratory, investigating the development of automatic visual detection in young, middle-aged, and old adults, found old adults unable to attain automatic detection after extensive practice. An additional series of experiments established that the older adults' failure to develop automatic detection was not due to the nature of the items to be detected, insufficient practice, the practice schedule, or response competition. Automatic detection is viewed as the result of a second level of learning, "priority" learning. The future course of this project will be an examination of the extent to which old adults can go beyond the first level of learning, i.e., "associative" learning, to priority learning which establishes a direct and immediate response of the attentional system to the item to be detected. The significance of this project lies in mapping out and accounting for matura-ional changes in the development of automatic visual detection which plays such an important part in our daily lives.