One-year cognitive outcomes from a multiple real-world skill learning intervention with older adults.

Objectives: Novel skill learning has been shown to have cognitive benefits in the short-term (up to a few months). Two studies expanded on prior research by investigating whether learning multiple novel real-world skills simultaneously (e.g.

Social Mobility and Sense of Purpose From Midlife to Old Age: Examining the Role of Major Life Events.

Purpose in life (PIL) has been linked with numerous health benefits and adaptive aging, yet it diminishes with age, possibly due to loss of social or familial roles through life transitions. Drawing from the longitudinal surveys of the Midlife in the US study ( = 3418), we use time-varying coefficient models to investigate how the trajectory of PIL differs across cumulatively (dis)advantaged, upwardly mobile, and downwardly mobile groups and the role of major life events in shaping these trajectories. We found the upwardly mobile group exhibits higher PIL than the cumulatively disadvantaged and downwardly mobile groups.

Categorization in infancy based on novelty and co-occurrence.

categories (i.e., groups of objects that do not share perceptual features, such as food) abound in everyday situations.