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Waring, Jill D.; Chong, Hyemi; Wolk, David A.; Budson, Andrew E. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) display a greater tendency to endorse unstudied items as "old" on memory tests than healthy older adults. This liberal response bias may result in mistaken beliefs about the completion of common tasks. This research attempted to determine whether it was possible to shift the response bias of mild AD…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Recognition (Psychology)
Spencer, Boyd; And Others – 1983
Research on trait descriptions of interpersonal behavior tends to converge on a two-dimensional representation in which descriptive variables are arrayed in a circular fashion around the major axes of affiliation and dominance. Wiggins' self-report adjective checklist (1979) reflects this theoretical ordering. To explore the utility of Wiggins'…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, College Students