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9780198524373: Models of Cognitive Aging (Debates in Psychology)

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This book offers an updated account of the latest methodological and theoretical issues in cognitive aging. Part of the Debates in Psychology series, it presents the arguments surrounding the currently controversial questions in cognitive aging. 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 explored in a series of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and together they cover a broad range of cognitive functions including language use, cognitive slowing, and memory loss.

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L'autore

Tim Perfect is at University of Bristol. Elizabeth Maylor is at University of Warwick.

Contenuti

  • 1: Timothy J. Perfect and Elizabeth A. Maylor: Rejecting the dull hypothesis: The relation between method and theory in cognitive aging research
  • 2: Timothy A. Salthouse: Steps toward the explanation of adult age differences in cognition
  • 3: Paul Verhaeghen: The parallels in beauty's brow: time-accuracy functions and their implications for cognitive aging theories
  • 4: Donald L. Fisher, Susan A. Duffy, and Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos: Cognitive slowing among older adults: What kind and how much?
  • 5: John L. Horn and Hiromi Masunaga: New directions for research into aging and intelligenceL the development of expertise
  • 6: Patrick M.A. Rabbitt: Measurement indices, functional characteristics, and psychometric constructs in cognitive aging
  • 7: Alan J. Parkin and Rosalind I. Java: Determinants of age-related memory loss
  • 8: Deborah M. Burke, Donald G. MacKay, and Lori E. James: Theoretical approaches to language and aging
  • 9: Leah L. Light, Matthew W. Prull, Donna J. La Voie, and Michael R. Healy: Dual-process theories of memory in old age

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9780198524380: Models of Cognitive Aging

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0198524382 ISBN 13:  9780198524380
Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2000
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