Gerontology Arena

Processing of Medical information in Aging Patients

Cognitive and Human Factors Perspectives

• Edited by Roger W. Morrell, Kim Shifren, Denise Park and Denise Park.

Published April 1999

This volume focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline in cognitive abilities on medical decisions and compliance with medical instructions. It examines how medical information and the medical environment can be restructured to accommodate the decreased cognitive function associated…
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Personality Development

Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Investigations of Loevinger's Conception of Ego Development

• Edited by P. Michiel Westenberg, Augusto Blasi and Lawrence D. Cohn.

Published January 1998

Jane Loevinger's innovative research methodology, psychometric rigor, and theoretical scope have attracted the attention of numerous scholars and researchers. Empirical investigations employing Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test of ego development (WUSCT) have appeared with…
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Adult Learning and Development

Perspectives From Educational Psychology

• Edited by M. Cecil Smith, and Thomas Pourchot.

Published December 1997

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction, and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but…
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Cross-cultural Communication and Aging in the United States

• Edited by Hana Noor Al-Deen.

Published July 1997

Recently, the communication discipline has devoted increasing energy toward the study of aging, yet most of the research has insufficiently addressed a crucial factor in communicative relationships--culture. Meanwhile, cross-cultural/intercultural communication has not adequately addressed the…
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The Developmental Psychology of Planning

Why, How, and When Do We Plan?

• Edited by Sarah L. Friedman, and Ellin Kofsky Scholnick.

Published July 1997

Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur in every situation, planning skill is central to all human behavior. There are developmental differences in planning skill and in the motivation to plan…
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Alzheimer Discourse

Some Sociolinguistic Dimensions

• By Vai Ramanathan.

Published April 1997

This book deals with the narrative discourse--specifically lifestories--of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD). It attempts to understand the discourse of these patients in contextual terms. Thus far, the dominant explanation for "incoherence" in AD speech has been largely provided…
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Biological and Neuropsychological Mechanisms

Life-span Developmental Psychology

• Edited by Hayne W. Reese, and Michael D. Franzen.

Published December 1996

Consistent with preceding volumes in this series, the contributors represent a variety of disciplines related to the theme of the conference and the ensuing volume. In the present instance, the theme is biological and neuropsychological mechanisms in life-span psychological development and the…
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Aging and Skilled Performance

Advances in Theory and Applications

• Edited by Wendy A. Rogers, Arthur D. Fisk and Neff Walker.

Published August 1996

The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air traffic control, or knitting; researchers study skill in a variety of ways, including speed of acquisition, accuracy of performance, and retention over…
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Compensating for Psychological Deficits and Declines

Managing Losses and Promoting Gains

• Edited by Roger A. Dixon, Lars B„ckman and Lars Backman.

Published September 1995

The concept of compensation in psychology refers to processes through which a gap or mismatch between current accessible skills and environmental demands is reduced or closed. These gaps can be principally the result of losses, such as those associated with aging or interpersonal role changes;…
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Assessment of Biological Mechanisms Across the Life Span

• Edited by Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Stephanie M. Clancy Dollinger and Stephanie MC Dollinger.

Published January 1995

Based on the First Biannual Lifespan Development Conference, this volume offers a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of lifespan development in the areas of neuropsychology, cognition, behavior genetics, and perception. The objective of the conference was to provide a…
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