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9780198524380

Models of Cognitive Aging

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198524380

  • ISBN10:

    0198524382

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-04-06
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

We live in an ageing society, where people are living longer, and where decreases in the birth rate mean that the proportion of the population above retirement age is steadily increasing. An ageing population has considerable implications for health services and care provision. Consequently there is a growing interest among researchers, medical practitioners, and policy makers in older adults, their capabilities, and the changes in their cognitive functioning. This book offers an up-to-the-minute account of the latest methodological and theoretical issues in cognitive ageing. Part of the Debates in Psychology series, it sets out the arguments surrounding the currently controversial questions in cognitive ageing. What is the appropriate methodology for understanding cognitive change? How many factors are necessary to understand the patterns of age-related change? What might these factors be? The topics and arguments are explored in a series of chapters by the leading researchers in the field. Each contributor offers their view of how cognitive ageing can be best understood, and together they cover a broad range of cognitive functions including language use, cognitive slowing, and memory loss.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
ix
Rejecting the dull hypothesis: the relation between method and theory in cognitive aging research
1(18)
Timothy J. Perfect
Elizabeth A. Maylor
Steps toward the explanation of adult age differences in cognition
19(31)
Timothy A. Salthouse
The parallels in beauty's brow: time-accuracy functions and their implications for cognitive aging theories
50(37)
Paul Verhaeghen
Cognitive slowing among older adults: what kind and how much?
87(38)
Donald L. Fisher
Susan A. Duffy
Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos
New directions for research into aging and intelligence: the development of expertise
125(35)
John L. Horn
Hiromi Masunaga
Measurement indices, functional characteristics, and psychometric constructs in cognitive aging
160(28)
Patrick M. A. Rabbitt
Determinants of age-related memory loss
188(16)
Alan J. Parkin
Rosalind I. Java
Theoretical approaches to language and aging
204(34)
Deborah M. Burke
Donald G. MacKay
Lori E. James
Dual-process theories of memory in old age
238(63)
Leah L. Light
Matthew W. Prull
Donna J. La Voie
Michael R. Healy
Index 301

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