Handbook of the Psychology of Aging
Academic Press
8th Edition
Published on 19. August 2015
550 pages
978-0-12-411523-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
- 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
- Covers the key areas in psychological gerontology research in one volume
- Explains how the role of behavior is organized and how it changes over time
- Completely revised from the previous edition
- New chapter on gender and aging process
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ForewordPreface
Section I: Concepts, Theory, Methods
Chapter 1 - Theoretical Perspectives for the Psychology of Aging in a Lifespan ContextK. Warner Schaie
Chapter 2 - Methodological Considerations for the Study of Adult Development and AgingStuart W. S. MacDonald and Robert S. Stawski
Chapter 3 - Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the Twenty-First CenturyToni 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 AgingAnna C. McCarrey, Melissa H. Kitner-Triolo, and Susan M. Resnick
Chapter 5 - The aging Mind in Transition: Amyloid Deposition and Progression Toward Alzheimer's DiseaseDenise C. Park and Michelle E. Farrell
Chapter 6 - Research on Human Plasticity in Adulthood: A Lifespan AgendaSimone Kühn and Ulman Lindenberger
Chapter 7 - Cognitive and Physical Aging: Genetic Influences and Gene-Environment InterplayChandra A. Reynolds and Deborah G. Finkel
Chapter 8 - Memory: Behavior and Neural BasisCindy Lustig and Ziyong Lin
Chapter 9 - Audition and Language Comprehension in Adult aging: Stability in the Fce of ChangeArthur Wingfield and Amanda Lash
Chapter 10 - Exercise, Cognition, and HealthKirk I. Erickson and Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Section III: Behavioral Processes
Chapter 11 - Personality and Health: Reviewing Recent Research and Setting a Directive for the FuturePatrick L. Hill and Brent W. Roberts
Chapter 12 - Cognitive Training in Later AdulthoodSherry L. Willis and Sylvie Belleville
Chapter 13 - Executive Functions and Neurocognitive agingPatricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Sara B. Festini, and Tiffany K. Jantz
Chapter 14 - Social Interrelations in Aging: The Sample Case of Married CouplesChristian A. Hoppmann and Denis Gerstorf
Chapter 15 - Age Differences in the Connection of Mood and Cognition: Evidence from Studies of Mood Congruent EffectsBob G. Knight, Sarah Rastegar, and Seungyoun Kim
Chapter 16 - Psychological Vitality in the Oldest OldJacqui Smith and Lindsay H. Ryan
Section IV: Complex Processes
Chapter 17 - Cross-Cultural Psychology of AgingHelene H. Fung and Da Jiang
Chapter 18 - Work, Retirement and AgingMo Wang and Junqi Shi
Chapter 19 - Financial Decision-Making and Capacity in Older AdultsDaniel C. Marson, Deborah L. Kerr, and Donald G. McLaren
Chapter 20 - Technology, Gaming, and Social NetworkingNeil Charness and Walter R. Boot
Chapter 21 - Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies for Late-Life Mood and Anxiety DisordersLisa C. Barry and Amy L. Byers
Chapter 22 - Late-Life Sleep and Sleep DisordersChristina S. McCrae, Megan E. Petrov, Natalie Dautovich, and Kenneth L. Lichstein
Chapter 23 - Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Dementia and their CaregiversLinda Teri, Glenise McKenzie, and Christina A. Coulter
Chapter 24 - The Psychology of Death and Dying in Later LifeDavid E. Balk
