title: Effects of cognitive training and testing on intellectual efficacy beliefs in elderly adults.
abstract: Elderly adults (N = 116; average age = 73 years) were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups varying in the amount of training and testing on fluid intelligence tests. They were compared before and after treatment on self-efficacy and utility beliefs for intelligence tests and everyday competence. Although both ability training and extended retest practice resulted in significant gains in objective test performance (Baltes, Kliegl, & Dittmann-Kohli, 1988), only ability training resulted in positive changes in self-efficacy. However, these changes were restricted to test-related self-efficacy. Training had no impact on perceived utility or on everyday self-efficacy beliefs. Implications of the results are discussed with regard to interventions to increase intellectual self-efficacy in elderly persons.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dittmann-Kohli
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Lachman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kliegl
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Baltes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012649:Self Concept