Older adults do not consistently overestimate their action opportunities across different settings

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-749044
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.74904

Bauer, Isabel ; Gölz, Milena S. ; Finkel, Lisa ; Blasizzo, Maddalena ; Stoll, Sarah E. M. ; Randerath, Jennifer

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Abstract

Am I still able to climb the ladder? Aging accompanies changes in physical constitution and a higher risk of injuries. At the same time, the judgment of action opportunities needs to be highly adaptive to the given task setting. We examined older adults’ (n = 40) judgment tendencies in four different tasks by use of a detection theory approach. The tasks’ setting differed in their boundaries’ ...