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Assessing Differences In Emotion Recognition And Short Term Memory For Young Old, Middle Old And Older Adults, Richard Hicks, Victoria Alexander, Mark Bahr
Assessing Differences In Emotion Recognition And Short Term Memory For Young Old, Middle Old And Older Adults, Richard Hicks, Victoria Alexander, Mark Bahr
Mark Bahr
Recently, age related cognitive decline has become an area of interest due to the maturing population. Research has identified that emotion recognition is likely to be affected by age related decline. It has also been suggested that memory subsystems may be responsible for decline. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess whether age related decline in emotion recognition could be accounted for by short term memory or visual memory. This study also expands on the aging literature as there is a paucity of research that compares aging across three age cohorts, as well as using relatively “young” participants. …
Constructing A Valid Psychometric Tool: The Adolescent Depression Scale, Mona Taouk, Mark Bahr
Constructing A Valid Psychometric Tool: The Adolescent Depression Scale, Mona Taouk, Mark Bahr
Mark Bahr
In order to assess the impact of depression on adolescents and to achieve adequate domain coverage of the construct of depression, The Adolescent Depression Scale (TADS) was created as a screening measure of adolescent depression. The previous presentation and paper on the TADS, delivered at the 7th ACPID, detailed a number of the initial statistical results; however this presentation will explore the main methodological considerations in creating a valid and reliable assessment instrument. There are a number of guidelines to consider when creating a psychometric tool, and test construction can be viewed as being comprised of a number of individual …
Development Of A New Measure Of Adolescent Depression, Mona Taouk, Mark Bahr
Development Of A New Measure Of Adolescent Depression, Mona Taouk, Mark Bahr
Mark Bahr
A new scale to measure adolescent depression was developed by reviewing literature of adolescent depression, and an examination of existing depression instruments for both adults and adolescents. The Taouk Adolescent Depression Scale (TADS) was constructed as a multidimensional measure of depression, evaluated using a sample of 263 undergraduate and secondary school students (70 males, 193 females) aged between 12 and 21 years (M=15.53, SD=2.35). Four reliable factors comparable to those identified in previous research were obtained from an obliquely rotated principal axis factoring extraction, resulting in a final 20 item instrument with five items per domain, illustrating construct validity. The …
Age-Related Differences In Mental Categorisation And Recognition For Schematic Faces, James Champion, Mark Bahr
Age-Related Differences In Mental Categorisation And Recognition For Schematic Faces, James Champion, Mark Bahr
Mark Bahr
The nature of the processes underlying the categorisation of perceptual experiences in long term memory (LTM) has been hotly debated in the research literature. The prototype account of mental categorisation purports that a mental abstraction, or prototype, is formed for each mental category stored in LTM. Exemplar theories, in contrast, postulate that mental categories are represented by instances stored in LTM, and that recognition is therefore dependent on the degree of similarity between the encountered stimulus and representations of experienced exemplars, not an abstracted prototype. Recent studies have suggested the presence of age-related differences in the categorisation of visual stimuli, …