Adult age differences in self-regulated learning from reading sentences

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An examination was done to explore how age differences in self-regulated allocation of effort to text might contribute to memory deficits, or alternatively to compensation, in learning content. The data support a model of self-regulated learning in which readers reduce the discrepancy between current and optimal states of learning.

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Age differences in emotional reactivity: The sample case of sadness

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An investigation of the age differences in the capacity to react to emotion-evoking stimuli is reported by focusing on a particular class of negative events namely fundamental and irreversible losses. Study showed that older adults experienced greater sadness to negative emotion-evoking events than their younger counterparts.

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Perceived self-efficacy domains as predictors of fear of the unknown and fear of dying among older adults

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The study tested the hypothesis that self-efficacy beliefs of older persons are significantly stronger predictors of death fears than are demographics, social support, and physical health variables used in earlier predictor models.

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