Models of Cognitive Aging / Edition 1

by Timothy J. Perfect, Elizabeth A. Maylor

Overview

We live in an ageing society, where people are living longer, and where decreases in the birth rate mean that the proportion of the population above retirement age is steadily increasing. An ageing population has considerable implications for health services and care provision. Consequently there is a growing interest among researchers, medical practitioners, and policy makers in older adults, their capabilities, and the changes in their cognitive functioning. This book offers an up-to-the-minute account of the latest methodological and theoretical issues in cognitive ageing. Part of the Debates in Psychology series, it sets out the arguments surrounding the currently controversial questions in cognitive ageing. 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 are explored in a series of chapters by the leading researchers in the field. Each contributor offers their view of how cognitive ageing can be best understood, and together they cover a broad range of cognitive functions including language use, cognitive slowing, and memory loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198524373
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/06/2000
Series:	Debates in Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Perfect, Timothy J. (Univ of Plymouth); Maylor, Elizabeth A. (Univ of Warwick)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors1. Rejecting the dull hypothesis: the relation between method and theory in cognitive aging research, Timothy J. Perfect and Elizabeth A. Maylor2. Steps toward the explanation of adult age differences in cognition, Timothy A. Salthouse3. The parallels in beauty's brow: time-accuracy functions and their implications for cognitive aging theories, Paul Verhaeghen4. Cognitive slowing among older adults: what kind and how much?, Donald L. Fisher, Susan A. Duffy, and Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos5. New directions for research into aging and intelligence: the development of expertise, John L. Horn and Hiromi Masunaga6. Measurement indices, functional characteristics, and psychometric constructs in cognitive aging, Patrick M. A. Rabbitt7. Determinants of age-related memory loss, Alan J. Parkin and Rosalind I. Java8. Theoretical approaches to language and aging, Deborah M. Burke, Donald G. MacKay, and Lori E. James9 Dual-process theories of memory in old age, Leah L. Light et al.Index