New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from June 1999

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from June 1999

The Study of Ageing.
June 1, 1999... Over the centuries gerontology, the study of age and ageing, has struggled to establish itself as a legitimate field of science. Although growing old has been a subject of interest for centuries, for many people the primary goal of such study...

Androgens, Ageing, Behavior and Cognition: Complex interactions and novel areas of inquiry.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... This article reviews the complex relationship between androgens and behavior, changes that occur with ageing and in particular hormone effects on cognitive abilities. Androgens are steroid hormones that exert both anabolic and androgenic...

Dizziness in the Elderly and Age-related Degeneration of the Vestibular System.
June 1, 1999... The peripheral and central vestibular systems exhibit an age-related structural deterioration which may be responsible for vestibular reflex deficits and dizziness in the elderly. However, it seems likely that the central nervous system is...

Incidence of Dizziness in the Elderly: Correlation with ocular motor, optokinetic and postural function.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... The aims of the study were to: 1) determine the incidence of dizziness in a sample of elderly participants, without history of diagnosed vestibular disorders, recruited from the community; 2) measure ocular motor, optokinetic and postural...

The Effect of Age on Metamemory for Working Memory.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... It has been proposed that deficits in metamemory may underlie the performance deficits shown by older adults in a variety of memory tasks. The present study examined metamemory accuracy of older adults (n = 21) and younger adults (n = 32) in a...

Age-Related Changes in Sensitivity to Relative Reward Frequency.
June 1, 1999... Older adults, younger adults, and children completed a signal-detection task which involved discriminating between two pattern types. Correct identifications of one pattern were reinforced three times more often than identification of the...

Age as a Factor in Judgments of Wisdom and Creativity.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... To examine the role that age plays when adults make judgments concerning wise and creative behaviours of others, a person-perception paradigm was employed (e.g., Erber, 1989). Young (N=60), middle-aged (N=50) and older (N=50) participants rated...

Cognitive aspects of ageing as portrayed in introductory psychology texts.
June 1, 1999... Introductory psychology texts may have an important influence on students' views of human behaviour. Previous investigations of these texts are briefly reviewed, and a small-scale study is described. The study examined 10 contemporary texts'...

Ageing and driver behaviour at rural T-intersections.
June 1, 1999... Eighty drivers in four groups of 20 (10 males; 10 females), respectively aged under 30 years, 40-59, 60-69 and 70 years and over, participated in research to identify factors contributing to older driver's rural T-intersection accidents. ...

Similarities of Neuropsychological Presentation in Two Cases of Capgras Syndrome with Comorbid Depression.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... Capgras Syndrome (CS) is one of several disorders loosely grouped under the rubric of delusional misidentification syndromes (Christodoulou, 1991). The core feature of Capgras Syndrome (CS) is the belief that familiar persons have been replaced...

Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency in Parkinson's Disease.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... Thirteen patients with non-dementing Parkinson's disease (PD) were compared with 11 healthy controls on a semantic and a phonemic verbal fluency task. Analysis of the data examined total words produced as well as two additional components of...