| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 638 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Prologue: a historical perspective -- The mental health system and the older adult -- Clinical psychological assessment of older adults -- Intervention with older adults and the evaluation of outcome -- Methodological and conceptual issues in the study of brain-behavior relations in the elderly -- Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive function in the elderly -- The measurement of cerebral atrophy in the aged by computed tomography -- Brainstem auditory evoked potentials in the elderly -- The utility of brain potentials in determining age-related changes in central nervous systema and cognitive functioning -- Electrophysiological assessment of mental function in aging and dementia -- Averaged evoked potential research in adult aging: status and prospects -- Cholinergic drug effects on memory and cognition in animals -- Cholinergic drug effects on memory and cognition in humans -- Opiate modulation of learning and memory in the rat -- |
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Vasopressin modulation of learning and memory in the rat -- Neuropeptide modulation of cognition and memory in humans -- Attentional and perceptual processes in the study of cognitive aging -- Contemporary issues and new directions in adult development of learning and memory -- Problem solving, concept learning, and aging -- Intelligence in adulthood and aging: contemporary issues -- The time for remembering -- Behavioral slowing with age: causes, organization, and consequences -- Reaction time measures, hemispheric specialization, and age -- Speed, age, and qualitative differences in cognitive functioning -- Age and the complexity hypothesis -- Stress and adaptation: life span perspectives -- Life events, stress, and coping -- Coping with surgery: information, psychological preparation, and recovery -- Measurement and monitoring of stress in communities -- The interaction of persons and living environments -- Person-environment dialectics: implications for competent functioning in old age -- |
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Environments as hypotheses in human aging research -- Parenting -- Sibling relationships in adulthood: a life span perspective -- Midlife development: a personality and social systems perspective -- Grandparenting -- Identity versus equivalence of psychological measures and constructs -- Perspectives on mathematical/statistical model building (MASMOB) in research on aging -- Between- and within-group comparisons in aging research -- Measurement of response bias in aging research -- Receiver operating characteristics: the effect of distribution on between-group comparisons -- Applications of signal detection theory to the study of psychological aging: a theoretical review -- Measuring sensation in the aged -- Health and behavior: methodological considerations for adult development and aging -- Where do we go from here? -- A last word. |
| Summary |
This is the third volume on aging issued by the American Psychological Association. Once again a substantial amount of information has accumulated that can help to direct our thinking about psychological aging in the next decade. The present volume has multiple purposes: to summarize and put into perspective selected issues on the psychology of aging and to establish research directions for the 1980s; to identify what we now know and what we need to know about nine selected areas in the field of aging; and to provide a framework to guide the deliberations of the participants at two projected conferences on aging--the 1981 White House Conference on Aging, and the 1982 World Assembly on Aging. In attempting to fulfill these purposes I have aimed to present complementary and competing views from researchers and clinicians of different backgrounds. It is intended to serve as a sourcebook to supplement and complement existing literature for researchers, practitioners, clinicians, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as the professionals and the policymakers in the field of aging and allied sciences. Abstracts have been provided to make each chapter accessible to lay readers. Nine major areas of research in aging are explored in this volume: clinical issues, neuropsychological issues, psychophysiological issues, psychopharmacological issues, cognitive issues, stress and coping, environmental issues, interpersonal relations, and methodological issues. For each of these areas, one or more associate editors were directed to identify and review the outstanding issues, to integrate new and old theories and data, and to provide directions for the next steps to be taken by researchers in the 1980s. Most sections of the book were presented in a series of symposia held at the 87th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York City, in September 1979. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Also issued in print. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Aging.
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Aged -- psychology.
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| Added Author |
Poon, Leonard W., 1942-
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Aging in ther 1980s (print) (DLC) 80018515 |
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