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Aging and cognition knowledge organization and utilization /
During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in the study of aging-related changes in cognitive abilities. In this volume researchers from a variety of theoretical perspectives discuss adult age differences in a wide range of cognitive skills. Of special interest is th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
North-Holland ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1990.
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| Series: | Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
71. |
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1 online resource (xi, 513 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Online Access: | Elsevier - Click here for access |
Contents:
- Cover; TOCContents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; CHChapter 1. Adult Age Differences in Activity Memory: Cue and Strategy Utilization; CHChapter 2. The Assessment of Qualitative Age Differences in Discourse Processing; CHChapter 3. Aging and Schematic Influences on Memory; CHChapter 4. Metamemory in Adulthood: Differentiating Knowledge, Belief, and Behavior; CHChapter 5. Cognition and Aging: A Theory of New Learning and the Use of Old Connections; CHChapter 6. Semantic-Memory Function and Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease.
- CHChapter 7. A Developmental Approach to the Study of Visual Cognition in the ElderlyCHChapter 8. Expertise and Aging: Life in the Lab; CHChapter 9. Levels of Knowledge Utilization and Visual Information Processing; CHChapter 10. Aging and Everyday Cognitive Abilities; CHChapter 11. Affect, Control, and Real World Problem Solving across the Adult Lifespan; IDXIndex; Author Index; Subject Index.