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The literature on learning in relation to age is heterogeneous and does not appear to have developed systematically. In this chapter, an effort is made to examine the themes or major purposes of the individual studies and to organize them into a relatively few categories. It must be recognized, however, that the categories are not mutually exclusive and that several studies could easily have been placed in more than one category. While the review of the literature is not all-inclusive, it is sufficiently comprehensive to represent the scope of interest in a particular type of problem. Except as indicated, these studies did not seem to control for possible age differences in the non-cognitive factors in learning. This lack of control has been one of the major problems in the field. Studies specifically relevant to the issue of non-cognitive contribution to age differences in learnings, were discussed in Chapter 3.
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Botwinick, J. (1967). Types of Learning. In: Cognitive Processes in Maturity and Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39890-6_4
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