Research Catalog

Title

Aging and cognition : research methodologies and empirical advances / edited by Hayden B. Bosworth and Christopher Hertzog.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Bosworth, Hayden B.
• Hertzog, C. K. (Christopher K.), 1952-

Description

xvii, 247 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

This book takes an interdisciplinary look at cognitive aging - how it happens and how to study it. The first part of the book explores methods for measuring cognitive change, including how to study cohort effects. The second part explores the social and psychological factors associated with cognitive aging. And, finally, a brief concluding section explores how to use research findings to improve the everyday functioning of adults - a challenging task because everyday functioning relies on complex cognitive tasks, while most cognitive research measures only basic cognitive tasks.

Series Statement

APA decade of behavior volumes

Uniform Title

Decade of behavior.

Subject

• Age Factors
• Aged
• Aging
• Cognition
• Cognition > Age factors
• Cognition in old age

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Hayden B. Bosworth and Christopher Hertzog -- History, cohorts, and patterns of cognitive aging / Duane F. Alwin -- Factor invariance, measurement, and studying development over the life span / John R. Nesselroade and Ryne Estabrook -- A multilevel factor analysis perspective on intellectual development in old age / Daniel Zimprich and Mike Martin -- The search for structure : the temperamental character of the temperament and character inventory / Scott B. Maitland ... [et al.] -- Convergence between cross-sectional and longitudinal studies : cohort matters / Elizabeth M. Zelinski ... [et al.] -- How those who have, thrive : mechanisms underlying the well-being of the advantaged in later life / Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan -- The rise and fall of control beliefs in adulthood : cognitive and biophyschosocial antecedents and consequences of stability and change over 9 years / Margie E. Lachman, Christopher B. Rosnick, and Christina Röcke -- Use it or lose it : an old hypothesis, new evidence, and an ongoing controversy / Christopher Hertzog --Dynamic emotion--cognition interactions in adult development : arousal, stress, and the processing of affect / Gisela Labouvie-Vief, Daniel Grühn, and Harold Mouras -- The way we were : perceptions of past memory change in older adults / David F. Hultsch ... [et al.] -- The role of cognitive ability in everyday functioning : medication adherence as an example / Hayden B. Bosworth and Brian J. Ayotte.

ISBN

• 9781433804540
• 1433804549

LCCN

^^2008046651

OCLC

276138413

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library