This study investigated older and younger persons' responsibility attributions for the cause of and solution to a memory problem and, for comparison, a weight problem. Traditional college-age students (n = 116) and persons over 65 years of age (n = 98) read a vignette describing either a 25-year-old
Causal attributions and strategy use in relation to memory performance differences in younger and older adults
โ Scribed by Patricia A. Devolder; Michael Pressley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1016 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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