Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology

by Edited by Randall W. Engle , Grzegorz Sedek , Ulrich von Hecker , Daniel N. McIntosh

• ISBN13: 9780521541954
• ISBN10: 0521541956
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book examines the major progress made in recent psychological science in understanding the cognitive control of thought, emotion, and behavior and what happens when that control is diminished as a result of aging, depression, developmental disabilities, or psychopathology. Each chapter of this volume reports the most recent research by a leading researcher on the international stage. Topics include the effects on thought, emotion, and behavior by limitations in working memory, cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and reasoning processes. Other chapters review standard and emerging research paradigms and new findings on limitations in cognitive functioning associated with aging and psychopathology. The explicit goal behind this volume was to facilitate cross-area research and training by familiarizing researchers with paradigms and findings in areas different from but related to their own.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
1. Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology: An Introduction and a Brief Tutorial to Research Methods	1	(18)
Randall W. Engle, Grzegorz Sedek, Ulrich von Hecker, and Daniel N. McIntosh
SECTION I WORKING MEMORY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
2. Working Memory Capacity in Hot and Cold Cognition	19	(25)
Nash Unsworth, Richard P. Heitz, and Randall W. Engle
3. Age Differences and Individual Differences in Cognitive Functions	44	(29)
Klaus Oberauer
4. Stress and Working Memory: Between-Person and Within-Person Relationships	73	(24)
Martin Sliwinski, Joshua Smyth, Robert S. Stawski, and Christina Wasylyshyn
SECTION II AGING AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF COGNITIVE CONTROL
5. The Aging of Cognitive Control: Studies of Conflict Processing, Goal Neglect, and Error Monitoring	97	(25)
Robert West and Ritvij Bowry
6. Cognitive Control and Schizophrenia: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms	122	(38)
Deanna M. Barch and Todd S. Braver
7. Aging and Varieties of Cognitive Control: A Review of Meta-Analyses on Resistance to Interference, Coordination, and Task Switching, and an Experimental Exploration of Age-Sensitivity in the Newly Identified Process of Focus Switching	160	(30)
Paul Verhaeghen, John Cerella, Kara L. Bopp, and Chandramallika Basak
8. An Ecological Approach to Studying Aging and Dual-Task Performance	190	(29)
Karen Z.H. Li, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Albina Bondar
9. Cognitive Performance After Preexposure to Uncontrollability and in a Depressive State: Going with a Simpler "Plan B"	219
Daniel N. McIntosh, Grzegorz Sedek, Susan Fojas, Aneta Brzezicka-Rotkiewicz, and Miroslaw Kofta
SECTION III ATTENTION, INHIBITION, AND REASONING PROCESSES
10. The Nature of Attentional Bias in Human Anxiety	249	(26)
Elaine Fox and George A. Georgiou
11. Inhibition, Rumination, and Mood Regulation in Depression	275	(38)
Jutta Joormann
12. Aging and Inhibitory Processes in Memory, Attentional, and Motor Tasks	313	(33)
Elizabeth A. Maylor, Friederike Schlaghecken, and Derrick G. Watson
13. Impairments of Memory and Reasoning in Patients with Neuropsychiatric Illness: Disruptions of Dynamic Cognitive Binding?	346	(31)
James A. Waltz
14. Generative Reasoning as Influenced by Depression, Aging, Stereotype Threat, and Prejudice	377	(25)
Ulrich von Hecker, Grzegorz Sedek, Kinga Piber-Dabrowska, and Sylwia Bedynska
Name Index	402	(17)
Subject Index	419