Fig 1.
Mean induction responsivity score in each induction task for young and older adults. Error bars represent 95% CI. Note. * Significant difference between younger and older adults (p < .05).
Table 1.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the alternate uses task (AUT) in Experiment 1.
Fig 2.
(A) mean fluency, (B) mean average originality, (C) mean peak originality, and (D) mean subjective creativity rating following each induction for young and older adults. Error bars represent 95% CI. Note. * Significantly different from no-induction baseline at Bonferroni corrected p value (< .017).
Fig 3.
Mean induction responsivity score in each induction task for young and older adults. Error bars represent 95% CI. Note. * Significant difference between younger and older adults (p < .05).
Fig 4.
(A) mean fluency, (B) mean average originality, (C) mean peak originality, and (D) mean subjective creativity rating following each induction for young and older adults. Error bars represent 95% CI. * Significantly different from no-induction baseline at Bonferroni corrected p value (< .017).
Table 2.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the alternate uses task (AUT) measures in Experiment 2.
Fig 5.
(A) mean fluency, (B) mean originality, (C) mean peak originality, (D) mean subjective creativity rating, and (E) mean flexibility following each induction for young and older adults. Error bars represent 95%. There was a significant main effect of age on all five measured aspects of the AUT, such that older adults performed better than younger adults.
Table 3.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the alternate uses task (AUT) measures in Experiment 3.
Table 4.
Visual presentation of the main effect of age across 3 experiments.
In all cases, the main effect of age indicated that the older adults performed better than the younger adults on the measures in question.