Aging and integration of contingency evidence in causal judgment.

摘要: Age differences in causal judgment are consistently greater for preventative/negative relationships than generative/positive relationships. In this study, a feature analytic procedure (Mandel & Lehman, 1998) was used to determine whether effect might be due young and older adults' integration of contingency evidence during induction. To reduce the impact age-related changes learning/memory, authors presented preventative, noncontingent, generative summary form; meaningfulness context varied induce participants integrate or lesser amounts evidence. Young adults showed flexibility their processes did adults. an abstract context, there were no age integration, but meaningful contexts, judgments preventative more accurate assigned weight confirming these These mediated by processing speed. The decline basic cognitive resource may place boundaries on amount type that can judgment.