Age Differences in Learning and the Question of Preexperimental Interference.

Finken, Laura L.; Babcock, Renee L.

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ERIC Number: EJ531881

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Publication Date: 1996

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Age Differences in Learning and the Question of Preexperimental Interference.

Finken, Laura L.; Babcock, Renee L.

Educational Gerontology, v22 n7 p683-92 Oct-Nov 1996

Fifty older and 50 younger adults with varying familiarity with standard keyboards performed 3 trials with the Dvorak keyboard. Older participants performed worse, but there was no relationship between age and familiarity. The amount of new information and not preexperimental interference from prior knowledge may account for age differences. (SK)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Congruence (Psychology), Keyboarding (Data Entry), Learning Processes, Prior Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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