Examines the relationship between age and mental health in a sample of persons 55 years and older (N=2,051). Presents data on three self-report measures of symptomatology; anxiety, depression, and a global measure of psychological well-being. (LLL)

Kindergarteners and first and fourth graders watched an educational television program containing three types of humor. Information acquisition and funniness were assessed. Compared with distortion-free humor, irony resulted in overestimates of properties of novel objects introduced in the program. Age did not diminish perceptual distortion.…

Examines the conditions under which children and adults use indexical words to refer to objects or to corefer with nouns in discourse. Subjects at three ages (6, 10, and adult) performed simple tasks and described their actions. (Author/AS)

Examined the association of aid exchange with attachment in student women and their mothers (139 pairs) and these same middle-aged mothers and their mothers (110 pairs). Different results for the two sets of intergenerational relationships are discussed in terms of individual and relationship development. (JAC)

Explored the relationships between chronological age, year of measurement, cohort membership, education, and perception of horizontal peerships versus vertical different status associations in 1,428 adults in a 1957 study and a replication in 1976. Data from a thematic apperception procedure showed significant age changes in interpersonal…

Examined the influence of sex and age on death anxiety in 165 male and 95 female homosexuals who completed the Death Anxiety Scale. Results showed gay males and females had almost identical DAS scores. No relationship was found between age and death anxiety. (JAC)

Scores on multiple-choice and free-response tasks were compared for three age groups of hearing-impaired subjects with comparable reading comprehension scores. Results suggest that hearing-impaired students' performance on comprehension measures, when reinspection is permitted, is not related to age but instead may be related to particular…

Discusses how youngsters learn to think in a recognizable adult fashion about political, social, and humanistic issues. Reports on research on the development of political attitudes over the course of adolescence. Concludes that the major difference between younger and older adolescents is the ability of the latter to think abstractly when…

Compared sex role characteristics and related personality traits in four age groups of women. In general, younger women were least like the traditional feminine sex role stereotype; they were more willing to ascribe masculine sex role characteristics to themselves. Older women adhered most strongly to conventional feminine traits. (JAC)

Used data from three generations to examine the association of intimacy to aid and contact in mother-daughter relationships. Results showed aid and contact were not predictive of intimacy. In the younger pairs, the connection between intimacy and contact between visiting and telephoning was conditional on geographical distance. (JAC)

Experiment tested one explanation of lag effect in free recall by comparing hypothesized and observed changes in developmental lag functions. Suggests that lag paradigm might be used in assessing developmental differences in processing strategies as a more sensitive, general alternative to overt rehearsal techniques. (Author/HS)

Age changes in categorization and conceptual styles were studied using an object-sorting task in 276 subjects representing seven age groups. Significant age effects were found in the analysis of variance for four of six measures; there were no significant sex or interaction effects. (Author)

Recognition by infants, 13 and 22 weeks old, was tested by pairing novel stimuli with the familiarization stimulus at different points in an experimental session. Younger subjects showed no recognition of either two- or three- dimensional stimuli. Older subjects demonstrated more recognition in the three-dimensional condition. (MS)

Twenty-four 14- and 30-month-old children observed a model use 20 new words as labels for objects of varied semantic associations. Age was highly and positively correlated with elicited and spontaneous imitation and scores for recognition of the objects associated with the words. (Author/SB)

Cognition in the elderly has been widely investigated, but there has been some disagreement concerning this phenomenon fostered in part by differences in instruments used, in data collection methods, and in analytic methods used. This study used Immediate and Delayed Recall data collected by the Health and Retirement Survey housed at the…