Abstract
Ninety‐six men and women from three groups (college young adults, noncollege young adults, and elderly) were assigned to cells of a 2 (strategy training) by 2 (noncontingent social praise) design. Following training, elderly (mean age = 71.0) were compared with each of the two young adult groups on two multidimensional classification measures, Raven's and matrix production. Significant main effects of age favoring young adults were found on both matrix tasks. Relationships between training and performance differed for the “production” and solution tasks. Strategy training was effective in improving the elderly's scores on the production task but not on the Raven's. Noncontingent social praise had no effect on dimensional classification at either age level.
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