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Adult age differences in categorization and multiple-cue judgment

Mata, Rui and von Helversen, Bettina and Karlsson, Linnea and Cüpper, Lutz. (2011) Adult age differences in categorization and multiple-cue judgment. Developmental psychology, Vol. 48, No. 4 , S. 1188–1201.

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Abstract

We often need to infer unknown properties of objects from observable ones, just like detectives must infer guilt from observable clues and behavior. But how do inferential processes change with age? We examined young and older adults' reliance on rule-based and similarity-based processes in an inference task that can be considered either a categorization or a multiple-cue judgment task, depending on the nature of the criterion (binary vs. continuous). Both older and young adults relied on rule-based processes in the multiple-cue judgment task. In the categorization task, however, the majority of older adults relied on rule-based processes while young adults preferred similarity-based processes. Moreover, older adults who relied on rule-based processes performed poorly compared with young adults who relied on the same process, suggesting that aging is associated with deficits in applying rule-based processes.
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Society & Choice > Cognitive and Decision Sciences (Mata)
07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Society & Choice > Economic Psychology (Rieskamp)
UniBasel Contributors:von Helversen, Bettina and Mata, Rui
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:American Psychological Association
ISSN:0012-1649
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:14 Sep 2012 07:04

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