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Multiple Pathways of Cognitive Aging explores adaptive functioning in later life. It considers both the factors underlying individual differences in late-life cognitive change, as well as the nature of the compensatory mechanisms developed by most successful and active middle-aged and older adults
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Grzegorz Sedek is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (ICACS) at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. He has published research on such topics as cognitive aging, subclinical depression, and learned helplessness.
Thomas M. Hess is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at North Carolina State University and recipient of the APA Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award.. He has published extensively on cognitive and social cognitive functioning in adulthood.
Dayna R. Touron is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is Associate Editor of Experimental Aging Research and on the editorial boards of Psychology and Aging and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
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Multiple Pathways of Cognitive Aging explores adaptive functioning in later life. It considers both the factors underlying individual differences in late-life cognitive change, as well as the nature of the compensatory mechanisms developed by most successful and active middle-aged and older adults
Testo aggiuntivo
This volume's overall approach should help readers parse aspects of cognition: memory, executive function, decision--making, judgment, and task performance.
