Title: Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life /
Authors: Poon, Leonard W., 1942-; Rubin, David C.; Wilson, Barbara A.; Wilson, Barbara A., 1941-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Cognition Age factors.; Memory Age factors; Cognition Research.; Memory Research.; Aging Psychological aspects; Cognition; Memory; Adult; Aged
Contents: 1. Introduction to Part I: The how, when, and why of studying everyday cognition / David C. Rubin -- 2. Representative design and the quality of generalization / Lewis Petrinovich -- 3. The myth of external validity / Douglas G. Mook -- 4. Functional explanations of memory / Darryl Bruce -- 5. General systems theory : a rationale for the study of everyday memory / Jan D. Sinnott -- 6. The laboratory and ecology : supplementary sources of data for memory research / Harry P. Bahrick -- 7. Issues of reguIarity and control : confessions of a regularity freak / David C. Rubin -- 8. Finding the bloody horse / Alan Baddeley -- 9. Some bad and some good reasons for studying memory and cognition in the wild / Thomas K. Landauer -- 10. Introduction to Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitive abilities in everyday life? / Leonard Poon -- 11. Memory for prose : perspectives on the reader / Joellen T. Hartley -- 12. Prose processing in adulthood : the text, the reader, and the task / Bonnie J.F. Meyer and G. Elizabeth Rice -- 13. Speech comprehension and memory through adulthood : the roles of time and strategy / Elizabeth Lotz Stine [and others] -- 14. The effects of aging on perceived and generated memories / Gillian Cohen and Dorothy Faulkner -- 15. Aging and word retrieval : naturalistic, clinical, and laboratory data / Nancy L. Bowles [and others] -- 16. Acquisition and utilization of spatial information by elderly adults : implications for day-to-day situations / Kathleen C. Kirasic -- 17. Inner-city decay? Age changes in structure and process in recall of familiar topographical information / Patrick Rabbitt.