TY - BOOK AU - Poon,Leonard W. AU - Rubin,David C. AU - Wilson,Barbara A. TI - Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life SN - 0521428602 AV - BF724.55.C63 P66 1992 U1 - 153.4 20 PY - 1992/// CY - Cambridge [England], New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Cognition KW - Age factors KW - Memory KW - Research KW - Aging KW - Psychological aspects N1 - 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 ER -