Aging in the 1980s : psychological issues /

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 pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Other Authors: Poon, Leonard W., 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, ©1980.
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Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.