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Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span. The psychology of aging is important to many features of daily life, from workplace and the family, to public policy matters. It is complex, and new questions are continually raised about how behavior changes with age. Providing perspectives on the behavioral science of aging for diverse disciplines, the handbook explains how the role of behavior is organized and how it changes over time. Along with parallel advances in research methodology, it explicates in great detail patterns and sub-patterns of behavior over the lifespan, and how they are affected by biological, health, and social interactions. New topics to the eighth edition include preclinical neuropathology, audition and language comprehension in adult aging, cognitive interventions and neural processes, social interrelations, age differences in the connection of mood and cognition, cross-cultural issues, financial decision-making and capacity, technology, gaming, social networking, and more.
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Author: K Warner Schaie (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) , Sherry L. Willis (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Edition: 8th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.020kg
ISBN: 9780124114692
ISBN 10: 0124114695
Pages: 550
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780128160947
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Foreword Preface Section I: Concepts, Theory, Methods Chapter 1 – Theoretical Perspectives for the Psychology of Aging in a Lifespan Context K. Warner Schaie Chapter 2 – Methodological Considerations for the Study of Adult Development and Aging Stuart W. S. MacDonald and Robert S. Stawski Chapter 3 – Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Toni C. Antonucci, Lisa Berkman, Axel Börsch-Supan, Laura L. Carstensen, Linda P. Fried, Frank F. Furstenberg, Dana Goldman, James S. Jackson, Martin Kohli, S. Jay Olshansky, John Rother, John W. Rowe, and Julie Zissimopoulos Section II: Bio-Psychosocial Factors in Aging Chapter 4 – Sex Hormones and Cognitive Aging Anna C. McCarrey, Melissa H. Kitner-Triolo, and Susan M. Resnick Chapter 5 – The aging Mind in Transition: Amyloid Deposition and Progression Toward Alzheimer’s Disease Denise C. Park and Michelle E. Farrell Chapter 6 – Research on Human Plasticity in Adulthood: A Lifespan Agenda Simone Kühn and Ulman Lindenberger Chapter 7 – Cognitive and Physical Aging: Genetic Influences and Gene-Environment Interplay Chandra A. Reynolds and Deborah G. Finkel Chapter 8 – Memory: Behavior and Neural Basis Cindy Lustig and Ziyong Lin Chapter 9 – Audition and Language Comprehension in Adult aging: Stability in the Fce of Change Arthur Wingfield and Amanda Lash Chapter 10 – Exercise, Cognition, and Health Kirk I. Erickson and Teresa Liu-Ambrose Section III: Behavioral Processes Chapter 11 – Personality and Health: Reviewing Recent Research and Setting a Directive for the Future Patrick L. Hill and Brent W. Roberts Chapter 12 – Cognitive Training in Later Adulthood Sherry L. Willis and Sylvie Belleville Chapter 13 – Executive Functions and Neurocognitive aging Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Sara B. Festini, and Tiffany K. Jantz Chapter 14 – Social Interrelations in Aging: The Sample Case of Married Couples Christian A. Hoppmann and Denis Gerstorf Chapter 15 – Age Differences in the Connection of Mood and Cognition: Evidence from Studies of Mood Congruent Effects Bob G. Knight, Sarah Rastegar, and Seungyoun Kim Chapter 16 – Psychological Vitality in the Oldest Old Jacqui Smith and Lindsay H. Ryan Section IV: Complex Processes Chapter 17 – Cross-Cultural Psychology of Aging Helene H. Fung and Da Jiang Chapter 18 – Work, Retirement and Aging Mo Wang and Junqi Shi Chapter 19 – Financial Decision-Making and Capacity in Older Adults Daniel C. Marson, Deborah L. Kerr, and Donald G. McLaren Chapter 20 – Technology, Gaming, and Social Networking Neil Charness and Walter R. Boot Chapter 21 – Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies for Late-Life Mood and Anxiety Disorders Lisa C. Barry and Amy L. Byers Chapter 22 – Late-Life Sleep and Sleep Disorders Christina S. McCrae, Megan E. Petrov, Natalie Dautovich, and Kenneth L. Lichstein Chapter 23 – Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Dementia and their Caregivers Linda Teri, Glenise McKenzie, and Christina A. Coulter Chapter 24 – The Psychology of Death and Dying in Later Life David E. Balk
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K. Warner Schaie holds an appointment as affiliate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He is also the Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Washington, an honorary Dr. Phil. from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, and an honorary Sc.D. degree from West Virginia University. He received the Kleemeier Award for Distinguished Research Contributions and the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the MENSA lifetime career award, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions award from the American Psychological Association. He is a past president of the APA Division of Adult Development and Aging and currently represents that Division on the APA Council of Representatives. He is author or editor of more than 60 books including the textbook Adult Development and Aging (5th edition, with S.L. Willis) and of all previous editions of the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (with J.E. Birren or S.L. Willis). He has directed the Seattle Longitudinal Study of cognitive aging since 1956 and is the author of more than 300 journal articles and chapters on the psychology of aging. His current research interest is in the life course of adult intelligence, its antecedents and modifiability, the impact of cognitive behavior in midlife upon the integrity of brain structures in old age, the early detection of risk for dementia, as well as methodological issues in the developmental sciences. Sherry L. Willis is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She previously held an appointment as professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has focused on age-related cognitive changes in later adulthood. In particular she is known for her work on behavioral interventions to remediate and enhance cognitive performance in community-dwelling normal elderly. She was a principal investigator on the ACTIVE study, a randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of cognitive interventions in the maintenance of everyday functioning in at-risk community-dwelling elderly, funded by NIA. She has been the codirector of the Seattle Longitudinal Study. In addition to her cognitive intervention research, she has conducted programmatic research on changes in everyday problem-solving competence in the elderly and cognitive predictors of competence. She and colleagues have developed several measures of Everyday Problem Solving. She is the co-author of the textbook Adult Development and Aging (with K.W. Schaie, now in its 5th edition). She has edited more than ten volumes on various aspects of adult development and cognition and has authored over a hundred publications in adult development. She has served as President of Division 20, Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Sweden. She received a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement and the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from the Pennsylvania State University, and the Paul and Margret Baltes award from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association. She currently has funding from NIA for a twenty-year follow-up of the ACTIVE randomized cognitive training trial and funding to archive the Seattle Longitudinal Study.
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