Paper-based assessment of the effects of aging on response time : a diffusion model analysis
- The effects of aging on response time were examined in a paper-based lexical-decision experiment with younger (age 18–36) and older (age 64–75) adults, applying Ratcliff’s diffusion model. Using digital pens allowed the paper-based assessment of response times for single items. Age differences previously reported by Ratcliff and colleagues in computer-based experiments were partly replicated: older adults responded more conservatively than younger adults and showed a slowing of their nondecision components of RT by 53 ms. The rates of evidence accumulation (drift rate) showed no age-related differences. Participants with a higher score in a vocabulary test also had higher drift rates. The experiment demonstrates the possibility to use formal processing models with paper-based tests.
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| Author: | Judith Dirk, Gesa Katharina Kratzsch, John J. Prindle, Ulf Kröhne, Frank GoldhammerORCiDGND, Florian SchmiedekORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442407 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence5020012 |
| ISSN: | 2079-3200 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Intelligence |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Place of publication: | Basel |
| Contributor(s): | Oliver Wilhelm |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/08 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/04/10 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/06/08 |
| Tag: | aging; diffusion model; paper-based assessment; processing speed |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 16 |
| Note: | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 423730800 |
| Institutes: | Erziehungswissenschaften / Erziehungswissenschaften |
| Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie | |
| Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
