David F Hultsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 94159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David F Hultsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | David F |
| FAMILY NAME | Hultsch |
| SIGNATURE | HULTSCH D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Aging and the Shape of Cognitive Change Before Death: Terminal Decline Or Terminal Drop
The present findings suggest that terminal decline and terminal drop trajectories may not be mutually exclusive but could rather reflect distinct developmental trajectories within the same individual
Organization and Memory in Adulthood
The research reviewed illustrates how organizational processes (grouping and relating) influence memory in general, and adult age differences in memory in particular. Free recall data have indicated that the subject segments the learning material into integrated groups which become his functional recall units. Thus, a major theoretical position that has emerged has been the suggestion that recall is dependent on organization. Such a theoretical p…
Implications of a Dialectical Perspective for Research Methodology / Naderizing Methodology: Discussant’s Comments / Methodological Implications of Contextual/Dialectic Theories of Development / Resea…
The papers of this symposium examine, within the context of several content areas, the methodological implications of a dialectical perspective. Rappoport reviews the four papers of the symposium suggesting that they represent a revolutionary perspective on psychological methodology. Lerner, Skinner, and Sorrell propose five prototypic issues derived from dialectics – relationism, evolving reciprocity, probabilism, timing, and the nonequivalent t…
External Validity in the Study of Human Development: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Methodological issues must be examined within the context of meta-theoretical perspectives. More specifically, at the level of drawing inferences from data, metatheory prescribes methodology. This argument is illustrated by examination of the validity of inferences in general, and external validity in particular, from two perspectives: a traditional perspective and a dialectical perspective. The traditional perspective, rooted in the mechanistic …
Learning-Ability Relations in Adulthood
Two successive free recall tasks and eight ability measures were presented to women of five age-groups to investigate the changing relation between performance and ability measures at various stages of the learning process during adulthood. Performance on the learning tasks was structured into a set of reference learning curves which were then correlated with the ability measures. A good fit to the data was provided by three reference learning cu…
Age-Related Slowing of Digit Symbol Substitution Revisited: What Do Longitudinal Age Changes Reflect
A previous investigation reported that cross-sectional age differences in Digit Symbol Substitution (DSS) test performance reflect declines in perceptual processing speed. Support for the tenability of the processing speed hypothesis requires examining whether longitudinal age-related change in DSS performance is largely mediated by changes in speed. The present study used data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study to examine patterns and predicto…
Stability and Change in Adult Personality Over 6 Years: Findings From the Victoria Longitudinal Study
Data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study were used to examine the 6-year longitudinal stability of personality in older adults. Personality was measured with the NEO Personality Inventory. The longitudinal sample consisted of 223 adults initially ranging from 55 to 85 years of age. Longitudinal confirmatory factor analyses were used to examine the stability of individual differences in change over time, and the stability of the longitudinal fact…
Variability in Reaction Time Performance of Younger and Older Adults
Age differences in three basic types of variability were examined: variability between persons (diversity), variability within persons across tasks (dispersion), and variability within persons across time (inconsistency). Measures of variability were based on latency performance from four measures of reaction time (RT) performed by a total of 99 younger adults (ages 17--36 years) and 763 older adults (ages 54--94 years). Results indicated that al…
Well-Being as a Moving Target: Measurement Equivalence of the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale
Although the Bradburn Affect Balance scale (ABS) is a frequently used two-factor indicator of well-being in later life, its measurement and invariance properties are not well documented. We examined these issues using confirmatory factor analyses of cross-sectional (adults ages 54-87 years) and longitudinal data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Stability of the positive and negative affect factors was moderate across a 3-year period. Overall…
Use it or lose it: Engaged lifestyle as a buffer of cognitive decline in aging?
Longitudinal Changes in Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Word and Story Recall in Young-Old and Old-Old Adults
The present study examined longitudinal changes in quantitative and qualitative measures of episodic memory. The sample, taken from the Victoria Longitudinal Study, consisted of 158 young-old adults (initially 55 to 70 years old) and 84 old-old adults (initially 71 to 86 years old) who were tested three times over six years. Average word and text recall, as well as five indicators of qualitative aspects of word recall (e.g., number of categories …
Age Differences in Recall and Predicting Recall of Action Events and Words
Age differences in recall and prediction of recall were examined with different memory tasks. We asked 36 younger (19-28 yrs) and 36 older (60-81 yrs) women to provide both global and item-by-item predictions of their recall, and then to recall either (a) Subject Performance Tasks (SPTs), (b) verb-noun word-pairs memorized in list-like fashion (Word-Pairs), or (c) nonsense verb-noun word-pairs (Nonsense-Pairs) over three experimental trials. Base…
Adult Age Differences in Perceptually based, but not Conceptually based Implicit Tests of Memory
Implicit tests of memory assess the influence of recent experience without requiring awareness of remembering. Evidence concerning age differences on implicit tests of memory suggests small age differences in favor of younger adults. However, the majority of research examining this issue has relied upon perceptually based implicit tests. Recently, a second type of implicit test, one that relies upon conceptually based processes, has been identifi…
Measurement properties of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in older populations.
Two cross-sectional samples of adults were administered the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). The results support the measurement validity of the CES-D for depression screening in older adult populations
Evidence for the convergent validity of two self-report metamemory questionnaires
Examined the convergent validity of two metamemory questionnaires: the Metamemory in Adult-hood questionnaire (MIA) and the Memory Functioning Questionnaire (MFQ)
Text recall in adulthood: The role of intellectual abilities
Adult age differences in the inhibition of recall as a function of retrieval cues
Adult age differences in retrieval: Trace-dependent and cue-dependent forgetting
Personal time perspective in adulthood: A time-sequential study
Patterns of subjective deprivation in adulthood
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Children on Parental Assessment of Past, Present and Future
R. W. Bortner, Claudia J. Bohn, David F. Hultsch, A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Children on Parental Assessment of Past, Present and Future, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 370-378
Personal time perspective in adulthood
Adult age differences in free classification and free recall
A verbal free classification and free recall task was presented to three age groups of women (20-29 years, 40-49 years, 60-69 years) to investigate adult age differences in free classification performance, and to determine whether the opportunity to organize the stimulus material prior to free recall is a significant age-related variable. Half of the subjects categorized words into two-seven categories prior to free recall, while the other half o…
The development of free classification and free recall in children
Adult age differences in the organization of free recall
Variability in Reaction Time Performance of Younger and Older Adults
Age differences in three basic types of variability were examined: variability between persons (diversity), variability within persons across tasks (dispersion), and variability within persons across time (inconsistency). Measures of variability were based on latency performance from four measures of reaction time (RT) performed by a total of 99 younger adults (ages 17--36 years) and 763 older adults (ages 54--94 years). Results indicated that al…
Stability and Change in Adult Personality Over 6 Years: Findings From the Victoria Longitudinal Study
Data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study were used to examine the 6-year longitudinal stability of personality in older adults. Personality was measured with the NEO Personality Inventory. The longitudinal sample consisted of 223 adults initially ranging from 55 to 85 years of age. Longitudinal confirmatory factor analyses were used to examine the stability of individual differences in change over time, and the stability of the longitudinal fact…
Evidence for the convergent validity of two self-report metamemory questionnaires
Examined the convergent validity of two metamemory questionnaires: the Metamemory in Adult-hood questionnaire (MIA) and the Memory Functioning Questionnaire (MFQ)
Adult age differences in the organization of free recall
Personal time perspective in adulthood
Well-Being as a Moving Target: Measurement Equivalence of the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale
Although the Bradburn Affect Balance scale (ABS) is a frequently used two-factor indicator of well-being in later life, its measurement and invariance properties are not well documented. We examined these issues using confirmatory factor analyses of cross-sectional (adults ages 54-87 years) and longitudinal data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Stability of the positive and negative affect factors was moderate across a 3-year period. Overall…
Adult age differences in retrieval: Trace-dependent and cue-dependent forgetting
Adult age differences in free classification and free recall
A verbal free classification and free recall task was presented to three age groups of women (20-29 years, 40-49 years, 60-69 years) to investigate adult age differences in free classification performance, and to determine whether the opportunity to organize the stimulus material prior to free recall is a significant age-related variable. Half of the subjects categorized words into two-seven categories prior to free recall, while the other half o…
Aging and the Shape of Cognitive Change Before Death: Terminal Decline Or Terminal Drop
The present findings suggest that terminal decline and terminal drop trajectories may not be mutually exclusive but could rather reflect distinct developmental trajectories within the same individual
Patterns of subjective deprivation in adulthood
Age-Related Slowing of Digit Symbol Substitution Revisited: What Do Longitudinal Age Changes Reflect
A previous investigation reported that cross-sectional age differences in Digit Symbol Substitution (DSS) test performance reflect declines in perceptual processing speed. Support for the tenability of the processing speed hypothesis requires examining whether longitudinal age-related change in DSS performance is largely mediated by changes in speed. The present study used data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study to examine patterns and predicto…
Text recall in adulthood: The role of intellectual abilities
Longitudinal Changes in Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Word and Story Recall in Young-Old and Old-Old Adults
The present study examined longitudinal changes in quantitative and qualitative measures of episodic memory. The sample, taken from the Victoria Longitudinal Study, consisted of 158 young-old adults (initially 55 to 70 years old) and 84 old-old adults (initially 71 to 86 years old) who were tested three times over six years. Average word and text recall, as well as five indicators of qualitative aspects of word recall (e.g., number of categories …
Age Differences in Recall and Predicting Recall of Action Events and Words
Age differences in recall and prediction of recall were examined with different memory tasks. We asked 36 younger (19-28 yrs) and 36 older (60-81 yrs) women to provide both global and item-by-item predictions of their recall, and then to recall either (a) Subject Performance Tasks (SPTs), (b) verb-noun word-pairs memorized in list-like fashion (Word-Pairs), or (c) nonsense verb-noun word-pairs (Nonsense-Pairs) over three experimental trials. Base…
Adult Age Differences in Perceptually based, but not Conceptually based Implicit Tests of Memory
Implicit tests of memory assess the influence of recent experience without requiring awareness of remembering. Evidence concerning age differences on implicit tests of memory suggests small age differences in favor of younger adults. However, the majority of research examining this issue has relied upon perceptually based implicit tests. Recently, a second type of implicit test, one that relies upon conceptually based processes, has been identifi…
The development of free classification and free recall in children
Adult age differences in the organization of free recall
Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology
The development of free classification and free recall in children
Adult age differences in free classification and free recall
A verbal free classification and free recall task was presented to three age groups of women (20-29 years, 40-49 years, 60-69 years) to investigate adult age differences in free classification performance, and to determine whether the opportunity to organize the stimulus material prior to free recall is a significant age-related variable. Half of the subjects categorized words into two-seven categories prior to free recall, while the other half o…
Personal time perspective in adulthood
Personal time perspective in adulthood: A time-sequential study
Patterns of subjective deprivation in adulthood
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Children on Parental Assessment of Past, Present and Future
R. W. Bortner, Claudia J. Bohn, David F. Hultsch, A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Children on Parental Assessment of Past, Present and Future, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 370-378
Adult age differences in retrieval: Trace-dependent and cue-dependent forgetting
Adult age differences in the inhibition of recall as a function of retrieval cues
Text recall in adulthood: The role of intellectual abilities
Evidence for the convergent validity of two self-report metamemory questionnaires
Examined the convergent validity of two metamemory questionnaires: the Metamemory in Adult-hood questionnaire (MIA) and the Memory Functioning Questionnaire (MFQ)
Measurement properties of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in older populations.
Two cross-sectional samples of adults were administered the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). The results support the measurement validity of the CES-D for depression screening in older adult populations
Adult Age Differences in Perceptually based, but not Conceptually based Implicit Tests of Memory
Implicit tests of memory assess the influence of recent experience without requiring awareness of remembering. Evidence concerning age differences on implicit tests of memory suggests small age differences in favor of younger adults. However, the majority of research examining this issue has relied upon perceptually based implicit tests. Recently, a second type of implicit test, one that relies upon conceptually based processes, has been identifi…
Age Differences in Recall and Predicting Recall of Action Events and Words
Age differences in recall and prediction of recall were examined with different memory tasks. We asked 36 younger (19-28 yrs) and 36 older (60-81 yrs) women to provide both global and item-by-item predictions of their recall, and then to recall either (a) Subject Performance Tasks (SPTs), (b) verb-noun word-pairs memorized in list-like fashion (Word-Pairs), or (c) nonsense verb-noun word-pairs (Nonsense-Pairs) over three experimental trials. Base…
Use it or lose it: Engaged lifestyle as a buffer of cognitive decline in aging?
Longitudinal Changes in Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Word and Story Recall in Young-Old and Old-Old Adults
The present study examined longitudinal changes in quantitative and qualitative measures of episodic memory. The sample, taken from the Victoria Longitudinal Study, consisted of 158 young-old adults (initially 55 to 70 years old) and 84 old-old adults (initially 71 to 86 years old) who were tested three times over six years. Average word and text recall, as well as five indicators of qualitative aspects of word recall (e.g., number of categories …
Well-Being as a Moving Target: Measurement Equivalence of the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale
Although the Bradburn Affect Balance scale (ABS) is a frequently used two-factor indicator of well-being in later life, its measurement and invariance properties are not well documented. We examined these issues using confirmatory factor analyses of cross-sectional (adults ages 54-87 years) and longitudinal data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Stability of the positive and negative affect factors was moderate across a 3-year period. Overall…
Variability in Reaction Time Performance of Younger and Older Adults
Age differences in three basic types of variability were examined: variability between persons (diversity), variability within persons across tasks (dispersion), and variability within persons across time (inconsistency). Measures of variability were based on latency performance from four measures of reaction time (RT) performed by a total of 99 younger adults (ages 17--36 years) and 763 older adults (ages 54--94 years). Results indicated that al…
Age-Related Slowing of Digit Symbol Substitution Revisited: What Do Longitudinal Age Changes Reflect
A previous investigation reported that cross-sectional age differences in Digit Symbol Substitution (DSS) test performance reflect declines in perceptual processing speed. Support for the tenability of the processing speed hypothesis requires examining whether longitudinal age-related change in DSS performance is largely mediated by changes in speed. The present study used data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study to examine patterns and predicto…
Stability and Change in Adult Personality Over 6 Years: Findings From the Victoria Longitudinal Study
Data from the Victoria Longitudinal Study were used to examine the 6-year longitudinal stability of personality in older adults. Personality was measured with the NEO Personality Inventory. The longitudinal sample consisted of 223 adults initially ranging from 55 to 85 years of age. Longitudinal confirmatory factor analyses were used to examine the stability of individual differences in change over time, and the stability of the longitudinal fact…
Organization and Memory in Adulthood
The research reviewed illustrates how organizational processes (grouping and relating) influence memory in general, and adult age differences in memory in particular. Free recall data have indicated that the subject segments the learning material into integrated groups which become his functional recall units. Thus, a major theoretical position that has emerged has been the suggestion that recall is dependent on organization. Such a theoretical p…
Implications of a Dialectical Perspective for Research Methodology / Naderizing Methodology: Discussant’s Comments / Methodological Implications of Contextual/Dialectic Theories of Development / Resea…
The papers of this symposium examine, within the context of several content areas, the methodological implications of a dialectical perspective. Rappoport reviews the four papers of the symposium suggesting that they represent a revolutionary perspective on psychological methodology. Lerner, Skinner, and Sorrell propose five prototypic issues derived from dialectics – relationism, evolving reciprocity, probabilism, timing, and the nonequivalent t…
External Validity in the Study of Human Development: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Methodological issues must be examined within the context of meta-theoretical perspectives. More specifically, at the level of drawing inferences from data, metatheory prescribes methodology. This argument is illustrated by examination of the validity of inferences in general, and external validity in particular, from two perspectives: a traditional perspective and a dialectical perspective. The traditional perspective, rooted in the mechanistic …
Learning-Ability Relations in Adulthood
Two successive free recall tasks and eight ability measures were presented to women of five age-groups to investigate the changing relation between performance and ability measures at various stages of the learning process during adulthood. Performance on the learning tasks was structured into a set of reference learning curves which were then correlated with the ability measures. A good fit to the data was provided by three reference learning cu…
Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works) · Cognitive psychology (16 works) · Cognition (11 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (8 works) · Recall (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Free recall (5 works)