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Sex, Education, Age, and Cautiousness: Implications for Counselors

✍ Scribed by Bonnie McLean Wright; David Mitchell Carscaddon; Steven Dennis Lambert

Publisher: American Counseling Association
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 518 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 1524-6817
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0029.2000.tb00096.x

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✦ Synopsis

A cross-sectional study of educated men and women showed that cautiousness, as measured by perceived probh-solving abilit)r daes not inmae with age. Sex differences were nonsignif;cant. The results are discussed in terms of R. Scbultz and/. Heckbauseni (1936) Life Span Model of Succmsj;Ll Aging.

Problem solving is an important skill at any age for men, women, and children.

Data indicated that problem-solving skills decreased with age, as reflected in individuals' psychomotor skills (Welford, 1977). Psychomotor ability is sometimes interpreted as cautiousness or as a slowing of reaction time (Welford, 1977). Two important measures in the field of psychomotor ability are tracking pmjcieny, measured as time on target, and psychomotor reminiscence. Remi- niscence is a gain in task proficiency following a rest period. Wright and Payne (1 985) found large significant differences in psychomotor tracking proficiency when a sample of elderly adults was compared with a sample of college students on mirror tracing and rotary pursuit tracking equipment. Wright and Payne also found that the sex differences in psychomotor reminiscence observed in young adults by some researchers (e.g., Buxton

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