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Trainability of Academic Skills in the Elderly.
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French, Lucia – 1982
The typical approach to studying the cognitive competencies of the elderly involves giving the same task to samples of elderly adults and college students. On such comparisons of performance of cognitive tasks, the elderly have almost always been found to be inferior, which is interpreted as indicating an irreversible age-determined decline in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adult Development, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals)