TITLE:
Comparing the Latent Structure of the Children’s Category Test-Level 1 among Young Children and Older Adults: A Preliminary Study
AUTHORS:
Georgia Papantoniou, Despina Moraitou, Magda Dinou, Effie Katsadima, Eugenia Savvidou, Evangelia Foutsitzi
KEYWORDS:
Cognitive Aging, Cognitive Development, General Abstraction, Retrogenesis, Working Memory
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.11,
October
24,
2016
ABSTRACT: The aim
of this paper was the comparison of the higher order nonverbal abilities, between
young children and older adults. In specific, 42 kindergarten and 56 elementary
school students (age range: 5 - 8 years), as well as 118 new-old adults and 27
old-old adults (age range: 61 - 88 years), were examined in the Children’s
Category Test-Level 1 (CCT-1). Findings from the Confirmatory Factor Analyses that were
applied to data, possibly reflect the delay of development of
general abstraction and working memory in the group of kindergarten students
and the decline of them in the group of old-old adults.