The classification behavior of male and female college students was compared with that of healthy, well-educated older males and females. Object-sorting and photo-sorting (male and female faces) procedures were employed. On measures of categorizing style – conceptual differentiation and compartmentalization – older adults were, respectively, lower and higher than college students. On measures of conceptualizing style – categorical-inferential, analytic-descriptive, and relational thematic – younger adults exhibited stronger preferences for the first two, older adults for the third. Five content categories for sorting human faces were derived – physical, age, psychological, demographic, and preferential. No systematic age or sex differences for sorting male photos were obtained. For female photos, however, age and sex differences were observed. On the whole, the results failed to confirm other published evidence maintaining that aging is marked by conceptual deficits or a regressed mode of cognitive functioning.

Keywords:
Categorizing style, Conceptualizing style, Object-sorting, Photo-sorting, Age differences, Sex differences, Aging, Conceptual, deficits
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1974
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