a scatter plot with explanatory variable patients age and response.pdf
- 1. a scatter plot with explanatory variable patient's age and response variable duration of emotional recovery shows a liner association with r=-0.5. how do younger and older individuals differ? Solution Research suggests that, as we age, we devote more resources to and take a more active role in the management and processing of emotion (Carstensen 1992). Though findings on whether physiological arousal and affect intensity increase (Schulz 1985), remain constant (Levenson et al. 1991), or decrease (Blanchard-Fields 1997) with age are 344 JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH mixed, they consistently suggest that the basic emotional system, particularly the subjective experience and expression of emotion, remains stable (Isaacowitz et al. 2000) and may even be enhanced with age (Malatesta-Magai et al. 1992). Notwithstanding, older and young adults appear to have different modes of information processing with respect to emotions. Undirected, older adults tend to adopt a more subjective and evaluative (i.e., emotional) mode than do young adults, who tend to engage in more objective and factual processing (Isaacowitz et al. 2000). This difference affects a variety of outcomes, including the quantity and type of information recalled (Hashtroudi et al. 1994). What explains older adults