Abstract The participants (107 preadolescents, 124 college students, 118 middle-aged
adults, and 131 older adults) described 2 everyday problems (1 unconstrained, the other …

The role of experience in understanding age differences in strategy generation and
information requests for solving everyday problems was explored in young and older adults …

Differences in problem-solving strategies for situations varying in three domains, consumer,
home management, and conflict with friends, were examined among younger, middle-aged …

The authors examined age and gender differences in the salience of interpersonal concerns
in individuals' representations of their own everyday problems. One hundred and seven …

Eighty-four adults between the ages of 20 and 79 were presented with two types of problem-
solving tasks. One was a task that is typically used in problem-solving research and the …

Previous research indicates that young and middle-aged adults perform better than other
age groups on problems similar to those they might encounter in their everyday lives …

A major shift in the study of cognitive aging occurring in the past two decades has been the
increased attention given to contexts, beyond the experimental laboratory. A corollary of this …

This study investigated individual differences in older adults' everyday problem-solving
performance using 3 instruments. Past research, typically using only single measures, has …

Studies of problem solving and aging published since 1974 are briefly reviewed and are
categorized according to the task studied:(a) concept learning,(b) problem solving other than …

We examined everyday problem solving in adulthood and compared it with traditional
measures of cognitive abilities. In the first phase of the research, we describe the …