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Employing Strategy in Measures of Executive Functioning: Young Versus Old Adults
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Yocum, Amanda A.
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Year and Degree
2008, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Science.
Abstract
Although various dementia-related executive deficits have been identified, the functional state of the frontal lobe during healthy aging remains unclear (Raz et al., 2005). The proposed study examines the use of strategy in measures of executive functioning in younger and older adults. Specifically, the strategy types of a nonverbal fluency task are shown to differentially correlate with the actual output generated by participants. The strategies employed here are compared between the two age groups, illustrating that older adults use the best strategy significantly less than younger adults, even when controlling for output differences, which may support the frontal lobe hypothesis of aging. The strategy types were shown to have no linear relationship with education level. Therefore, the possibility of using strategy type in this nonverbal fluency measure as a nonverbal premorbid indicator is not likely.
Committee
Amir Poreh, PhD (Committee Chair)
Richard Rakos, PhD (Committee Member)
Boaz Kahana, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
53 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
neuropsychological testing
;
executive functions
;
strategy
;
aging
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Yocum, A. A. (2008).
Employing Strategy in Measures of Executive Functioning: Young Versus Old Adults
[Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1210296951
APA Style (7th edition)
Yocum, Amanda.
Employing Strategy in Measures of Executive Functioning: Young Versus Old Adults.
2008. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1210296951.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Yocum, Amanda. "Employing Strategy in Measures of Executive Functioning: Young Versus Old Adults." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1210296951
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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