Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life /
Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life /
edited by Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson.
- xii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adult Cognitive Abilities in the Laboratory and in Real-life Settings: Basic Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Introduction to Part I: the how, when and why of studying everyday cognition / Systematic Approaches to Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- Representative design and the quality of generalization / The myth of external validity / Functional explanations of memory / General systems theory: a rationale for the study of everyday memory / Combining Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- The laboratory and ecology: supplementary sources of data for memory research / Issues of regularity and control: confessions of a regularity freak / Finding the bloody horse / Some bad and some good reasons for studying memory and cognition in the wild Thomas K. Landauer / Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life: Findings in Real-life Settings: -- Introduction to Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitive abilities in everyday life? / Everyday Cognitive Abilities: -- Memory for prose: perspectives on the reader / Prose processing in adulthood: the text, the reader and the task / Speech comprehension and memory through adulthood: the roles of time and strategy / The effects of aging on perceived and generated memories / Aging and word retrieval: naturalistic, clinical and laboratory data / Acquisition and utilization of spatial information by elderly adults: implications for day-to-day situations / Inner-city decay? Age changes in structure and process in recall of familiar topographical information / The cognitive ecology of problem solving / Everyday problem solving: methodological issues, research findings and a model / Prospective /intentional memory and aging: memory as adaptive action / Concomitant Influences: -- Motivation and aging Lawrence / Questionnaire research on metamemory and aging: issues of structure and function / The importance of awareness in memory aging / Age and expertise: responding to Talland's challenge / World-knowledge systems / Comments on aging memory and its everyday operations / Cognitive Enhancement and Aging: Clinical and Educational Applications: -- Introduction to Part III: approaches to practical applications / Issues and Perspectives: -- Varieties of memory compensation by older adults in episodic remembering / Improvement with cognitive training: which old dogs learn what tricks? / Enhancement Approaches: -- Planning practical memory training for the aged / Mnemonics as modified for use by the elderly / Designing Programs for Cognitive Rehabilitation: -- Designing memory-therapy programs / Management of memory problems in a hospital setting / Home-based cognitive rehabilitation with the elderly / Memory retraining: everyday needs and future prospects / David C. Rubin -- Lewis Petrinovich -- Douglas G. Mook -- Darryl Bruce -- Jan D. Sinnott -- Harry P. Bahrick -- David C. Rubin -- Alan Baddeley -- Leonard W. Poon -- Joellen T. Hartley -- Bonnie J. F. Meyer and G. Elizabeth Rice -- Elizabeth Lotz Stine, Arthur Wingfield and Leonard W. Poon -- Gillian Cohen and Dorothy Faulkner -- Nancy L. Bowles, Loraine K. Obler and Leonard W. Poon -- Kathleen C. Kirasic -- Patrick Rabbitt -- Alan A. Hartley -- Nancy Wadsworth Denney -- Jan D. Sinnott -- C. Perlmuter and Richard A. Monty -- Roger A. Dixon -- John C. Cavanaugh -- Neil Charness -- Cameron J. Camp -- Donald H. Kausler -- Barbara A. Wilson and Leonard W. Poon -- Lars Bekman -- Sherry L. Willis -- Robin L. West -- Jerome A. Yesavage, Danielle Lapp and Javaid I. Sheikh -- Barbara A. Wilson -- Nadina B. Lincoln -- Nicholas J. Moffat -- Herbert F. Crovitz. Part I. 1. Part I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part Ib. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part II. 10. Part II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Part II. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Part III. 27. Part III. 28. 29. Part III. 30. 31. Part Iiic. 32. 33. 34. 35.
0521428602 9780521428606 0521371481 9780521371483
Cognition--Age factors
Memory--Age factors
Cognition--Research
Memory--Research
Aging--Psychological aspects
Cognition.
BF724.55.C63 / P66 1992
153.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adult Cognitive Abilities in the Laboratory and in Real-life Settings: Basic Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Introduction to Part I: the how, when and why of studying everyday cognition / Systematic Approaches to Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- Representative design and the quality of generalization / The myth of external validity / Functional explanations of memory / General systems theory: a rationale for the study of everyday memory / Combining Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- The laboratory and ecology: supplementary sources of data for memory research / Issues of regularity and control: confessions of a regularity freak / Finding the bloody horse / Some bad and some good reasons for studying memory and cognition in the wild Thomas K. Landauer / Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life: Findings in Real-life Settings: -- Introduction to Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitive abilities in everyday life? / Everyday Cognitive Abilities: -- Memory for prose: perspectives on the reader / Prose processing in adulthood: the text, the reader and the task / Speech comprehension and memory through adulthood: the roles of time and strategy / The effects of aging on perceived and generated memories / Aging and word retrieval: naturalistic, clinical and laboratory data / Acquisition and utilization of spatial information by elderly adults: implications for day-to-day situations / Inner-city decay? Age changes in structure and process in recall of familiar topographical information / The cognitive ecology of problem solving / Everyday problem solving: methodological issues, research findings and a model / Prospective /intentional memory and aging: memory as adaptive action / Concomitant Influences: -- Motivation and aging Lawrence / Questionnaire research on metamemory and aging: issues of structure and function / The importance of awareness in memory aging / Age and expertise: responding to Talland's challenge / World-knowledge systems / Comments on aging memory and its everyday operations / Cognitive Enhancement and Aging: Clinical and Educational Applications: -- Introduction to Part III: approaches to practical applications / Issues and Perspectives: -- Varieties of memory compensation by older adults in episodic remembering / Improvement with cognitive training: which old dogs learn what tricks? / Enhancement Approaches: -- Planning practical memory training for the aged / Mnemonics as modified for use by the elderly / Designing Programs for Cognitive Rehabilitation: -- Designing memory-therapy programs / Management of memory problems in a hospital setting / Home-based cognitive rehabilitation with the elderly / Memory retraining: everyday needs and future prospects / David C. Rubin -- Lewis Petrinovich -- Douglas G. Mook -- Darryl Bruce -- Jan D. Sinnott -- Harry P. Bahrick -- David C. Rubin -- Alan Baddeley -- Leonard W. Poon -- Joellen T. Hartley -- Bonnie J. F. Meyer and G. Elizabeth Rice -- Elizabeth Lotz Stine, Arthur Wingfield and Leonard W. Poon -- Gillian Cohen and Dorothy Faulkner -- Nancy L. Bowles, Loraine K. Obler and Leonard W. Poon -- Kathleen C. Kirasic -- Patrick Rabbitt -- Alan A. Hartley -- Nancy Wadsworth Denney -- Jan D. Sinnott -- C. Perlmuter and Richard A. Monty -- Roger A. Dixon -- John C. Cavanaugh -- Neil Charness -- Cameron J. Camp -- Donald H. Kausler -- Barbara A. Wilson and Leonard W. Poon -- Lars Bekman -- Sherry L. Willis -- Robin L. West -- Jerome A. Yesavage, Danielle Lapp and Javaid I. Sheikh -- Barbara A. Wilson -- Nadina B. Lincoln -- Nicholas J. Moffat -- Herbert F. Crovitz. Part I. 1. Part I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part Ib. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part II. 10. Part II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Part II. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Part III. 27. Part III. 28. 29. Part III. 30. 31. Part Iiic. 32. 33. 34. 35.
0521428602 9780521428606 0521371481 9780521371483
Cognition--Age factors
Memory--Age factors
Cognition--Research
Memory--Research
Aging--Psychological aspects
Cognition.
BF724.55.C63 / P66 1992
153.4