Cognitive process development as measured by an adapted version of Wechsler's Similarities test

Rozencwajg, Paulette

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2007.07.001

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“…We expect that this concreteness effect will also be shown in our categorization task. In fact we observed that this concreteness effect was even more important in our categorization task than in a memory task what we already observed with children (Rozencwajg, 2007).…”

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“…Although concreteness effect was highlighted in lexical decision tasks and memory tasks, we expect that it applies in categorization tasks too which requires deep semantic processing (Craik & Tulving, 1975, Rozencwajg, 2007. We expect that concrete words will be more easily categorized than abstract words.…”

Section: Evolution Of Vocabularymentioning

confidence: 95%

“…We already know that abstract words are later categorized with the children (Binet-Simon, 1908 ;Cognet, 2006 ;Perron-Borelli, 2000 ;Wechsler, 2005 ;Winnykamen et al, 1974). They are more relevant to study their development (Rozencwajg, 2007). As far as we know, this phenomena has not been studied with the elderly.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This research falls within the general framework of cognitive psychology's contribution to the understanding of how performance on intelligence tests evolves with age. By identifying the processes that underlie a subject's performance on intelligence tests, the researcher can better understand a subject's cognitive function with information that is not necessarily reflected in an intelligence test's total score (Grégoire, 2004;Huteau & Lautrey, 1999;Rozencwajg & Corroyer, 2002;Rozencwajg, 2005, Rozencwajg, Cherfi, Ferrandez, Lautrey, Lemoine & Loarer, 2005aRozencwajg, Lemoine, Rolland-Grot & Bompard, 2005b;Rozencwajg, 2006a;Rozencwajg, 2007).…”

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Categorization and Aging as measured by an adapted version of Wechsler’s similarities test

Rozencwajg¹,

Bertoux²

2008

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L'objectif de cette recherche est d'étudier l'évolution avec le vieillissement du processus taxonomique impliqué dans une version adaptée du test des Similitudes de Wechsler, qui distingue la catégorisation des mots concrets versus abstraits. Deux groupes ont été constitués : 20 adultes jeunes (M =20ans, SD=1.36) et 20 adultes âgés (M =70ans, SD=4.66). Les résultats montrent un déclin de la catégorisation taxonomique avec l'âge, notamment pour les mots abstraits. L'effet de concrétude est donc observé mais seulement chez les âgés du fait d'un effet « plafond » des performances chez les jeunes adultes. De plus, il s'avère que la moyenne des réponses taxonomiques des âgés est à peu près équivalente à celle d'enfants de 9 ans d'une étude antérieure. La courbe curvilinéaire du développement de la catégorisation taxonomique observée par de nombreux auteurs est donc retrouvée. Néanmoins, une analyse plus précise des items et des réponses montre que les âgés ont davantage de difficultés avec des mots faciles qu'avec des mots difficiles. Ce résultat suggère que le processus de catégorisation serait préservé mais que des variables affectives viendraient moduler l'activation du processus taxonomique.

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2008

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“…By identifying the processes that underlie a subject's performance on intelligence tests, the researcher can gain insight into the subject's cognitive functioning by way of information that is not necessarily reflected in total scores on an intelligence test (Grégoire, 2004;Huteau & Lautrey, 1999;Rozencwajg, 2005;Rozencwajg, 2007;Rozencwajg & Bertoux, 2008;Rozencwajg & Corroyer, 2002;Rozencwajg, Lemoine, Rolland-Grot, & Bompard, 2005;Rozencwajg, Cherfi, Ferrandez, Lautrey, Lemoine, & Loarer, 2005). We focused in particular on the Arithmetic Subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS-III (Wechsler, 2000), which remains the most widely used intelligence battery in the world (Castro, Meljac, & Joubert, 1996;Flanagan & Harrison, 2005).…”

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