Everyday Memory and Aging - Current Research and Methodology

Everyday Memory and Aging is a comprehensive handbook whichtouches virtually every aspect of current everyday memoryresearch and methodology as they relate to aging. This bookdemonstrates that the results of divergent approaches to thestudy of everyday memory and aging frequently dovetail, andit widens significantly the scope of investigation and know-ledge in the field.

List of contents

1. Everyday Memory and Aging: A Diversity of Tests, Tasks, and Paradigms.- 2. Uses of Diary Data in Cognitive and Developmental Research.- 3. Examining Idiosyncracies in Script Reports Across the Life Span: Distortions or Derivations of Experience.- 4. A Computerized Battery for Assessment of Everyday Memory.- 5. Age and Memory for Spatial Relations.- 6. Adult Age Differences in Script Content and Structure.- 7. Age Differences in Perceptual Processing and Memory for Spoken Language.- 8. Symbolic Processing of Youth and Elders.- 9. Age Differences in Spoken Language.- 10. Memory Interventions in Alzheimer's-Type Dementia Populations: Methodological and Theoretical Issues.- 11. Applications of Psychological Research for the Instruction of Elderly Adults.- 12. Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Clinicians: Methodological Perspectives and Choices.- 13. The Interface Between Psychometric Abilities and Everyday Cognitive Functioning.- 14. Spatial Skills, Memory, and Environmental Use in a Nursing Home Setting.- 15. Knowledge Factors in Everyday Visual Perception.- 16. A Proposed Role for Affect in Everyday Memory.- 17. Aging, Selective Attention, and Everyday Memory.- 18. Eyewitness Memory and Aging Research: A Case Study in Everyday Memory.- 19. Cooperative Action and Reconstructing the Personal Past as Functions of Autobiographical Remembering.- 20. Individual Differences in Everyday Memory Aging: Implications for Theory and Research.- Author Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: D Sinnott (Editor), D Sinnott (Editor), Robi L West (Editor), Robin L West (Editor), Jan D. Sinnott (Editor), Robin L. West (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9781461391531
• ISBN: 978-1-4613-9153-1
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 17 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 294 p. 6 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Innere Medizin, Kognitionspsychologie, Klinische und Innere Medizin, Psychologie: Theorien und Denkschulen, Medizin / Innere Medizin, Psychologie / Kognitionspsychologie, Psychologie / Allgemeines, Einführung, Lexikon, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition