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PERSPECTIVES ON COGNITIVE CHANGE IN ADULTHOOD AND AGING
- Fredda Blanchard-Fields, GEORGIA INST OF TECH
- Thomas M. Hess, NC STATE UNIV-RALEIGH
ISBN: 0-07-028450-4 / 1996 / Softcover / 528 pgs
Overview
This upper-level text for advanced undergraduate students in Human Development, Social Work, Psychology and Gerontology Departments is part of the McGraw-Hill Series in Developmental Psychology. This book addresses cognitive and intellectual changes in adulthood and aging, utilizing the work of the most prominent scholars in the field. Chapters are contributed by 20 renowned colleagues on topics such as foundations, intelligence, information processing, memory, and cognition in context. Each contributor discusses specific issues or trends in his/her area of Adult Development. The volume is edited by two noted scholars in Cognitive Aging, and contains an introductory chapter by the editors that integrates the topics discussed.
Features
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This book can function as a main text or supplement depending on the nature of the course.
The most comprehensive and student oriented text available on the subject of cognitive change in adult development and aging.
Integrated Approach: Introductory Chapters: Two leading experts in theoretical and methodological issues in cognitive aging wrote the first two chapters. They worked closely to insure that the necessary connections between theory and methods were established. Content Areas: Each of the content areas were written by leading experts in the field. They were asked to identify the major issues and theoretical advances in their areas as well as review the literature and relate it back to the introductory chapter.
Organization: The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "Foundations", provides a basic framework for studying the divergent content area of cognitive change in adulthood. The second section is focused on topics that have traditionally been studies within the context of information processing approaches to cognition (in which cognitive skill is typically viewed as a series of individual structures or processes representing parts of stages of larger cognitive apparatus). The third section focuses on intelligence from three different theoretical and/or methodological perspectives. In the final sections of the book, the authors include four chapters that are concerned with understanding the broader impact of aging on cognitive skills.
Priced affordably: This text can be used as a primary or supplementary text in many courses in the upper undergraduate and graduate curriculums.
Table of Contents
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SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONS
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CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the Study of Cognitive Change in Adulthood--T.M. Hess & F.
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Blanchard-Fields
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CHAPTER 2: Theoretical Issues in Cognition and Aging--R.A. Dixon & C. Hertzog
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CHAPTER 3: Methodological Issues in Research on Cognition and Aging--C. Hertzog & R.A.
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Dixon
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CHAPTER 4: Vision, Audition, and Aging Research--F. Schieber & C.L. Baldwin
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SECTION 2: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MEMORY
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CHAPTER 5: Active Selection and Inhibition in the Aging of Attention--D.J. Plude, L.K.
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Schwartz, & L.J. Murphy
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CHAPTER 6: Memory Changes in Normal Aging--A.D. Smith & J.L. Earles
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CHAPTER 7: The Aging of Implicit and Explicit Memory--D.V. Howard
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CHAPTER 8: Language and Discourse Processing through Adulthood--E.A.L. Stine, L.M.
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Soederberg, & D.G. Morrow
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SECTION 3: INTELLIGENCE
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CHAPTER 9: Psychometric Intelligence and Aging--K.W. Schaie & S.L. Willis
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CHAPTER 10: Practical Intelligence and Problem Solving--C.A. Berg
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CHAPTER 11: The Developmental Approach--J. Sinnot
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SECTION 4: COGNITION IN CONTEXT
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CHAPTER 12: Memory in Context--T.M. Hess & S.M. Pullen
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CHAPTER 13: Age-Related Differences in Skilled Performance and Skill Acquisition--E.A
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Bosman & N. Charnes
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CHAPTER 14: Social Cognitive Development in Adulthood and Aging--F. Blanchard-Fields
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CHAPTER 15: Memory Self-efficacy as a Moderator of Memory Change--J. Cavanaugh
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