NO ONE LEFT TO PUSH: THE PUBLIC POLICY OF AGING AND BLINDNESS |
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| Authors: | Ian Stuart-Hamilton Lorraine McDonald |
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| Institution: | Michigan Commission for the Blind Saginaw , Michigan |
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| Abstract: | The decline in psychometric measures of general intelligence (g) and performance of similar laboratory-based tasks has been pivotal in shaping psychogerontology's views of the aging intellect, and by extension, the ability to learn. However, parallel to this is the consideration that the motivation and intellectual needs of older adults may change. The study presented here found that levels of need for cognition are closely related to older adults' performance on Piagetian tasks, indicating an intellectual lifestyle preference that operates alongside, and interactively with, performance on traditional intellectual measures. The implications of this are discussed. |
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