Research Catalog

Title

Cognition, aging, and self-reports / edited by Norbert Schwarz ... [et al.].

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Psychology Press, c1999.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Schwarz, Norbert, Dr. phil.

Description

xvii, 407 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Social surveys > United States
• Memory in old age > United States
• Older people > Self-rating of > United States
• Cognition > Age factors > United States
• Memory > Age factors > United States
• Cognition in old age > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Cognition, Aging, and Self-Reports : Editors' Introduction / Norbert Schwarz ... [et al.] -- Part I. Self-Reports and Cognitive Aging -- Self-Reports of Behaviors and Opinions : Cognitive and Communicative Processes / Norbert Schwarz -- Cognitive Aging, Processing Resources, and Self-Report / Denise C. Park -- The Concept of Gains in Cognitive Aging / Roger A. Dixon -- Part II. Age-Related Changes in Cognitive Functioning -- Memory, Aging, and Survey Measurement / Fergus I.M. Craik -- Aging, Circadian Arousal Patterns, and Cognition / Carolyn Yoon, Cynthia P. May, and Lynn Hasher -- Metamemory as Social Cognition : Challenges for (and from) Survey Research / John C. Cavanaugh -- Autobiographical Memory and Aging : Distributions of Memories Across the Life-Span and Their Implications for Survey Research / David C. Rubin -- Pressing Issues in Cognitive Aging / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Part III. Language Comprehension and Communication -- Comprehending Spoken Questions : Effects of Cognitive and Sensory Change in Adult Aging / Arthur Wingfield -- Aging and Message Production and Comprehension / Susan Kemper and Karen Kemtes -- Intergenerational Communication : The Survey Interview as a Social Exchange / Sheree T. Kwong See and Ellen Bouchard Ryan -- Part IV. Surveying Older Respondents -- Asking Survey Respondents About Health Status : Judgment and Response Issues / Susan Schechter, Paul Beatty, and Gordon B. Willis -- Cognitive Testing of Cognitive Functioning Questions / Diane O'Rourke ... [et al.] -- Dynamics of Survey Interviewing and the Quality of Survey Reports : Age Comparisons / Robert F. Belli, Paul S. Weiss, and James M. Lepkowski -- Cognitive Performance Measures in Survey Research on Older Adults / A. Paula Herzog and Willard L. Rodgers -- Age Differences in Question and Response Order Effects / Barbel Knauper -- Aging and Errors of Measurement : Implications for the Study of Life-Span Development / Duane F. Alwin.

ISBN

• 1560327804 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781560327806 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

98019790

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library