When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of- place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students. "For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened," said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psycholo...
The use of personal names, related forms of address and references directed toward older adults, especially in health care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, is ageist and infantilizes older adults. We provide a number of examples of this practice from the available literature....
(82 pounds) or less. Older males develop wide cheek pads, a unique feature amongprimates. The typically dark tan or brownishskinis covered with relatively coarse and usuallysparseredhair. Adult males and some older adult females may have partially or entirely bare backs, but the hair on a ...
Previous research has shown that people especially older adults have a special difficulty in learning the names of newly encountered people. This is potentially attributable to the lack of direct link in memory between a face and name. The present experiments investigated whether older and younger ad...
Node Structure Theory (NST) is a model of memory that predicts greater difficulty with proper names than common nouns, with specific name retrieval deficits in older adults. Two studies involving proper names tested predictions of NST for young and older adults' performance. In the first ...
Over the years I have seen parents turning to formal, organized focus groups and Facebook polls to seek help and guidance to choose the perfect moniker for their new baby. Starbucks is one of my favourites for coffee and for names. Many of the names that they have given to their blends ...
When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students. "For the young people, it's as if the distraction never happened," said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology...
the MLsconditions), older adults will show greater interference (fan)seffects than young adults. Previous tudies of the fan effect andsaging have found that older adults do show a larger fan effects(=-=Cohen, 1990-=-; Gerard, Zacks, Hasher, & Radvansky, 1991 ). Insthe Gerard et at. ...
For example, in the comparison between Apple and Microsoft, Apple would be a young, hip, creative type and Microsoft would be an older, mature professional type. In fact, this difference was visualized in the famous “Mac versus PC” ads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo)....
For example, ‘88’ is a culturally laden number with Chinese speakers where it represents good luck. In addition, older players may attempt to appear younger to mislead other players with regard to their expertise and younger players may attempt to appear older to gain status. Nevertheless, ...