Checking it Twice: Age-related Differences in Double Checking during Visual Search
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dayna R. Touron, Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Visual search is an integral part of functioning in everyday life and a primary component of some occupational tasks. Older adults typically exhibit longer response times on visual search tasks compared to younger adults. Mechanisms proposed as explanations of these age-related differences include general slowing of the speed of information processing, amount of internal noise, attentional capacity, selective attention, and inhibition. This study evaluated the possibility that age-related differences in visual search may be partly due to older adults double checking to a greater degree than younger adults. Older adults did in fact double check more so than younger adults. Moreover, speed stress instructions reduced double checking behavior as well as age-related differences in double checking.
Checking it Twice: Age-related Differences in Double Checking during Visual Search
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 54(18): 1326-1330. [2010]
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- visual search, double checking behavior, age-related differences, older adults, age-related slowing