Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Psychol Aging. 2012 Sep;27(3):701-6. doi: 10.1037/a0026719. Epub 2011 Dec 26.
This study examined whether the nonitem-specific retest learning effects, previously shown with young-old adults primarily in their 60s and 70s, could be extended to oldest-old adults aged 80 and onward. Twenty-one oldest-olds participated in an 8-session retest training program with three ability domains: perceptual speed, inductive reasoning, and visual attention. Their data were compared with the data of 30 young-olds collected in a previous work (Yang, Reed, Russo, & Wilkinson, 2009). The two age groups showed largely equivalent retest learning effects. In addition, only young-olds were able to benefit from item-specific retest learning, specifically in reasoning and perceptual speed tests.
本研究考察了先前在主要为 60 多岁和 70 多岁的年轻老年人中观察到的非项目特异性重测学习效应是否可以扩展到 80 岁及以上的最老年人。21 名最老年人参加了一个 8 节的重测培训计划，涉及三个能力领域：知觉速度、归纳推理和视觉注意力。他们的数据与之前的一项研究（Yang、Reed、Russo 和 Wilkinson，2009）中收集的 30 名年轻人的数据进行了比较。两个年龄组的重测学习效果基本相当。此外，只有年轻人能够从项目特异性重测学习中受益，特别是在推理和知觉速度测试中。
