Problem-solving as a function of age sex and the role appropriateness of the problem content
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Aging Research
- Vol. 4 (6) , 505-519
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610737808257172
Abstract
Problems (20) chosen from the problem-solving literature were administered without time limits to 8 males and 8 females [human] in 3 age groups: 20-30, 40-50 and 60-70. Only age influenced performance with the middle-age group scoring significantly higher than the other groups. Analysis of the time required by each age group to solve the problems showed the young group required significantly less time than the other groups. The young group made more errors of commission while the older group made more errors of omission.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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