Measures of everyday functioning and independent living correlate with psychometric cognition, with stronger relations for fluid reasoning than for crystallized knowledge¶
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q2 i? Across assessment approaches for older adults' independent living, the strongest relations were found with novel problem-solving rather than knowledge measures. → Salthouse 2012
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Salthouse 2012¶
Salthouse, T. (2012). Consequences of Age-Related Cognitive Declines. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 201-226. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100328
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Review of studies using the Everyday Cognition Battery, ETS Basic Skills Test, Everyday Problems Test, and Observed Tasks of Daily Living Test. The review reports moderate path coefficients of 0.48 for fluid reasoning and 0.22 for crystallized knowledge with observed daily-living task factors.
"the strongest relations have been found with novel problem-solving (or fluid) rather than with knowledge (or crystallized) measures of cognition"
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Learner Variables¶
- General Cognitive Ability — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
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Measures of everyday functioning and independent living correlate with psychometric cognition, with stronger relations for fluid reasoning than for crystallized knowledge |
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Measures of everyday functioning and independent living correlate with psychometric cognition, with stronger relations for fluid reasoning than for crystallized knowledge |
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