PSY 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Analysis Of Variance
3 Sep 2019
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The last word: a comparison of younger and older adults" brain responses to reminders of death. Summarizes prior theory and studies on the topic. Published in a scientific journal which uses peer-review to evaluate merits. Other experts critique and decide whether article is accurate and worth publishing. Age differences, attention, emotional content, event-related potentials, terror management theory (tmt) Age differences (due to proximity to death) in brain response to attention allocation for death-related stimuli. 1st study to examine role of attention in explaining age differences (oa vs. Ya) in response to reminders of death (stimuli: words; deathwords vs. non-death words) Ya & oa viewed words, recorded erps. What they found & what it means. Ya: increased amplitude in late positive potential component of erp for death words. Attention to stimuli: + > - (positive over negative) It is important to understand what underlies age differences in death- related anxiety . Tmt: possible explanation for these age differences.
