Research Catalog

Title

Learning and memory in normal aging / Donald H. Kausler.

Author

Kausler, Donald H.

Publication

San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Description

xiii, 544 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Memory > Aged
• Learning, Psychology of, in old age
• Learning > Aged
• Memory in old age

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-511) and indexes.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Conditioning and Instrumental Learning. Learning or Memory? Adult Age Differences in Conditioning. Adult Age Differences in Instrumental Learning -- Ch. 2. Skill Learning and Procedural Learning. Adult Age Differences in Motor-Skill Learning. Adult Age Differences in Perceptual Learning. Adult Age Differences in Learning Mental Skills. Adult Age Differences in Procedural Learning -- Ch. 3. Verbal Learning. Adult Age Differences in Paired-Associate Learning. Adult Age Differences in Serial Learning -- Ch. 4. Mnemonics and Transfer. Mnemonics. Adult Age Differences in Transfer -- Ch. 5. Sensory Memory and Short-Term/Primary Memory. Overview of the Human Memory System. Adult Age Differences in Sensory Memory. Adult Age Differences in Short-Term/Primary Memory -- Ch. 6. Models of Long-Term Episodic Memory. Dual-Store Models. Levels-of-Processing Model. General Resources -- Ch. 7. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Effortful Phenomena. Adult Age Differences in Organizational Processes. Multitrial Free Recall.
• Generation Effect. Encoding Variability and the Lag Effect. Recognition Memory. Adult Age Difference in Picture and Face Memory. Adult Age Differences in Retrieval. Adult Age Differences in Prospective Memory -- Ch. 8. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Discourse. Adult Age Differences in Sentence Memory. Adult Age Differences in Paragraph Memory. Adult Age Differences in Memory for Longer Discourses -- Ch. 9. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Automaticity and Rehearsal Independence. Adult Age Differences in Memory for Noncontent Attributes of Episodic Events. Adult Age Differences in Memory for Activities and Actions. Adult Age Differences in other forms of Reahearsal-Independent Memory -- Ch. 10. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Retention and Forgetting. Adult Age Differences in Real-Life Forgetting. Why Forgetting? Laboratory Studies: Retention of Successive Lists. Laboratory Studies: Single-List Retention. Laboratory Studies: Retention of Activities and Actions. Laboratory Studies: Retention of Noncontent Attributes.
• Ch. 11. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Implicit Memory. Nature of Implicit Memory. Adult Age Differences in Implicit Memory. Why Age Sensitivity on Some Tasks and Not Other Tasks? Conscious Recollection versus Automaticity. Future Research -- Ch. 12. Generic (Semantic) Memory and Metamemory. Adult Age Differences in the Internal Lexicon. When Lexical Access Fails. Adult Age Differences in the Use of Syntax. Adult Age Differences in Metamemory.

ISBN

0124026559

LCCN

93043189

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries