Older test participants have a higher discrimination threshold than younger ones meaning their tactile acuity is worse.
Not exact matches
The
participants of the study were given an intelligence quotient
test at the median age of 30 years
old, as well as providing individual information about their educational achievements and income levels.
The
participants, a 51 - year -
old woman who retained some movement in her fingers and wrists and a 54 - year -
old man who could still move one of his index fingers slightly, are
participants in the BrainGate2 trial, which is
testing a neural interface system allowing thoughts to control computer cursors, robotic arms and other assistive devices.
The
participants were at least 65 years
old and had low testosterone levels, based on the average results of multiple
tests.
For the
test, the
participants were divided into three groups — those diagnosed with MCI or had a family history of Alzheimer's disease, and two control groups, young adults and
older adults, without a family history of the disease.
They found that both younger and
older participants were more likely to falsely recognize the
test events if the actors appearing in those events also had appeared in the mugshots.
After encoding,
participants performed an
old / new recognition
test that included studied words, critical lures, and unrelated lures.
For this project, conducted from 2005 to 2006, survey teams from the National Opinion Research Center used a standard, well - validated
test to assess the ability of 3,005
older participants to identify five common odors.
To
test this idea, more than 500 people in relationships from a small town in the United States were recruited by telephone.3
Participants ranged from 18 to 92 years
old, with a median age of nearly 50 years
old.
Considering the categorization of
participants into groups of rapid regulators and nonregulators, a goodness - of - fit chi - square
test (χ2) revealed that
older adults were just as likely to be rapid regulators as nonregulators, χ2 (1, N = 34) =.00, p = 1.00; however, for younger adults a trend was found in which they were more likely to be nonregulators than rapid regulators, χ2 (1, N = 25) = 3.24, p =.07.
In
testing our first hypothesis, we conducted t -
tests on
older and younger
participants» first slider ratings as higher ratings among these
participants who had previously been induced into a negative mood indicated rapid regulation.
Age and gender were not quite evenly distributed across the two samples; in Hong Kong
participants were on average a little
older (M = 30.33, SD = 12.21) than the UK
participants (M = 27.12, SD = 10.14), but a t
test revealed that this difference was not significant t (106) = 1.46, p >.05.
Using a representative community sample of 308 16 - year -
olds from the Child Development Project (Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1990), we
tested and corroborated the hypotheses that
participants with relatively low anxiety and high APSD scores would display poorer passive avoidance learning and less interference on a spatially separated, picture - word Stroop task than controls.