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Optional intradimensional and extradimensional shift behavior in preschool children, college-aged adults, and two groups of elderly adults was investigated in this study. The young adults made reliably more intradimensional shifts than did the children. This finding is in accord with the results of earlier studies in which optional reversal and nonreversal shift behavior has been investigated as a function of age. While the two elderly groups did not differ reliably in their shift behavior, the performance of the younger elderly Ss was comparable to that obtained for the college Ss, while the performance of the older elderly Ss was comparable to that obtained for the children.
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Witte, K.L. Optional shift behavior in children and young and elderly adults. Psychon Sci 25, 329–330 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335894
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