TY - GEN
T1 - Checking it twice
T2 - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
AU - Mitzner, Tracy L.
AU - Touron, Dayna R.
AU - Rogers, Wendy A.
AU - Hertzog, Christopher
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1518/107118110X12829369835563
DO - 10.1518/107118110X12829369835563
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952928213
SN - 9781617820885
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1326
EP - 1330
BT - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -