Aging and Cognitive Processes

✍ Scribed by Ted L. Petit (auth.), F. I. M. Craik, Sandra Trehub (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Series: Advances in the Study of Communication and Affect 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For a variety of reasons, there has been an explosion of interest in research on aging over the past few years. The reasons include an awareness that a large and growing proportion of our popUlation is over 65 and that research findings can contribute to their health, satisfaction, and efficiency as members of society; the fact that funding agencies have endorsed the need for more research effort in the area by setting up special programs; and also the fact that researchers themselves are turning more to practical problems as many theoretical issues (in experimen­ tal psychology at least) seem to remain as intractable as ever. Thus, at present there is widespread interest in aging, but there is also a lack of knowledge as to what has already been accomplished in the area, what the theoretical issues are, and what factors contribute to the methodological and practical difficulties. The time is propitious for meetings of experts in various aspects of the aging process, both to discuss among themselves latest advances in the field and also to inte­ grate known information for researchers and practitioners. In the summer of 1980 we organized such a meeting as the 10th annual psychology symposium to be held at the Erindale Campus of the University of Toronto. The topic chosen was Aging and Cognitive Processes, and the edited contributions to the symposium form the chapters of the present book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Neuroanatomical and Clinical Neuropsychological Changes in Aging and Senile Dementia....Pages 1-21
Cellular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 23-27
Advances in the Psychophysiology of Aging....Pages 29-53
A Neuropsychological Approach to Perception and Memory in Normal and Pathological Aging....Pages 55-78
How Do Old People Know What to Do Next?....Pages 79-98
The Development of Visual Information Processes in Adulthood and Old Age....Pages 99-125
The Appearance and Disappearance of Age Differences in Adult Memory....Pages 127-144
General Encoding of Episodic Events by Elderly Adults....Pages 145-154
Learning and Memory Deficits in Institutionalized and Noninstitutionalized Old People....Pages 155-181
Encoding Deficits in Aging....Pages 183-190
Aging and Cognitive Deficits....Pages 191-211
Classification Style Differences in the Elderly....Pages 213-220
Changes with Age in Problem Solving....Pages 221-235
The Theory of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence in Relation to Concepts of Cognitive Psychology and Aging in Adulthood....Pages 237-278
Reallocation of Mental Resources over the Productive Lifespan....Pages 279-308
Attention Switching in Higher Mental Process....Pages 309-316
Studying Cognitive Performance in the Elderly....Pages 317-329
Memory Functioning in Late Adulthood....Pages 331-351
Plasticity and Enhancement of Intellectual Functioning in Old Age....Pages 353-389
Back Matter....Pages 391-396

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology