Conceptual Deficits and Aging: The Category Test
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 46 (1) , 123-128
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.46.1.123
Abstract
Category Test performance of 41 bright aged normals was compared with the performance of 40 young normals and a group of 43 patients with suspected neurological dysfunction. The aged normals were not only as deficient as the neurologic patients but showed a similar pattern of deficits on Category subtests. The extreme difficulty experienced by aged normals and patients on Subtests III and IV was explained as a function of task complexity rather than of conceptual difficulty. Further investigation of the relationship between the relative difficulty of conceptual principles and task complexity in a variety of impaired groups was suggested.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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