Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life / edited by Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992Copyright date: ©1989Description: xii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521428602
- 9780521428606
- 0521371481
- 9780521371483
- 153.4 20
- BF724.55.C63 P66 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Adult Cognitive Abilities in the Laboratory and in Real-life Settings: Basic Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- 1. Introduction to Part I: the how, when and why of studying everyday cognition / David C. Rubin -- Part I. Systematic Approaches to Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- 2. Representative design and the quality of generalization / Lewis Petrinovich -- 3. The myth of external validity / Douglas G. Mook -- 4. Functional explanations of memory / Darryl Bruce -- 5. General systems theory: a rationale for the study of everyday memory / Jan D. Sinnott -- Part Ib. Combining Laboratory and Real-world Research: -- 6. The laboratory and ecology: supplementary sources of data for memory research / Harry P. Bahrick -- 7. Issues of regularity and control: confessions of a regularity freak / David C. Rubin -- 8. Finding the bloody horse / Alan Baddeley -- 9. Some bad and some good reasons for studying memory and cognition in the wild Thomas K. Landauer / Part II. Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life: Findings in Real-life Settings: -- 10. Introduction to Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitive abilities in everyday life? / Leonard W. Poon -- Part II. Everyday Cognitive Abilities: -- 11. Memory for prose: perspectives on the reader / Joellen T. Hartley -- 12. Prose processing in adulthood: the text, the reader and the task / Bonnie J. F. Meyer and G. Elizabeth Rice -- 13. Speech comprehension and memory through adulthood: the roles of time and strategy / Elizabeth Lotz Stine, Arthur Wingfield and Leonard W. Poon -- 14. The effects of aging on perceived and generated memories / Gillian Cohen and Dorothy Faulkner -- 15. Aging and word retrieval: naturalistic, clinical and laboratory data / Nancy L. Bowles, Loraine K. Obler and Leonard W. Poon -- 16. Acquisition and utilization of spatial information by elderly adults: implications for day-to-day situations / Kathleen C. Kirasic -- 17. Inner-city decay? Age changes in structure and process in recall of familiar topographical information / Patrick Rabbitt -- 18. The cognitive ecology of problem solving / Alan A. Hartley -- 19. Everyday problem solving: methodological issues, research findings and a model / Nancy Wadsworth Denney -- 20. Prospective /intentional memory and aging: memory as adaptive action / Jan D. Sinnott -- Part II. Concomitant Influences: -- 21. Motivation and aging Lawrence / C. Perlmuter and Richard A. Monty -- 22. Questionnaire research on metamemory and aging: issues of structure and function / Roger A. Dixon -- 23. The importance of awareness in memory aging / John C. Cavanaugh -- 24. Age and expertise: responding to Talland's challenge / Neil Charness -- 25. World-knowledge systems / Cameron J. Camp -- 26. Comments on aging memory and its everyday operations / Donald H. Kausler -- Part III. Cognitive Enhancement and Aging: Clinical and Educational Applications: -- 27. Introduction to Part III: approaches to practical applications / Barbara A. Wilson and Leonard W. Poon -- Part III. Issues and Perspectives: -- 28. Varieties of memory compensation by older adults in episodic remembering / Lars Bekman -- 29. Improvement with cognitive training: which old dogs learn what tricks? / Sherry L. Willis -- Part III. Enhancement Approaches: -- 30. Planning practical memory training for the aged / Robin L. West -- 31. Mnemonics as modified for use by the elderly / Jerome A. Yesavage, Danielle Lapp and Javaid I. Sheikh -- Part Iiic. Designing Programs for Cognitive Rehabilitation: -- 32. Designing memory-therapy programs / Barbara A. Wilson -- 33. Management of memory problems in a hospital setting / Nadina B. Lincoln -- 34. Home-based cognitive rehabilitation with the elderly / Nicholas J. Moffat -- 35. Memory retraining: everyday needs and future prospects / Herbert F. Crovitz.
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