Performance of Older Persons in a Simulated Shopping Task Is Influenced by Priming with Age Stereotypes

Previous research suggests that older persons show cognitive deficits in standardized laboratory tests, but not in more natural tests such as the Multiple Errands Task (MET). The absence of deficits in the latter tests has been attributed to the compensation of deficits by strategies based on life-l...

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Main Authors: Bock, Otmar, Akpinar, Selçuk
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5029882/