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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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.