Aging and cognition : research methodologies and empirical advances

Aging and Cognition takes an interdisciplinary look at cognitive aging - how it happens and how to study it. The first part of the book explores methods for measuring cognitive change, including how to study cohort effects. The second part explores the social and psychological factors associated with cognitive aging. And, finally, a brief concluding section explores how to use research findings to improve the everyday functioning of adults - a challenging task because everyday functioning relies on complex cognitive tasks, while most cognitive research measures only basic cognitive tasks. This book is suitable for cognitive psychologists; experimental psychologists; developmental psychologists; geropsychologists; neuropsychologists; and graduate students in cognitive and developmental psychology courses and their professors.

Hayden B. Bosworth and Christopher HertzogDuane F. AlwinJohn R. Nesselroade and Ryne EstabrookDaniel Zimprich and Mike MartinScott B. Maitland and Lars Nyberg and Lars Backman and Lars-Goran Nilsson and Rolf AdolfssonElizabeth M. Zelinski and Robert F. Kennison and Amber Watts and Kayan L. LewisCarmi Schooler and Leslie J. CaplanMargie E. Lachman and Christopher B. Rosnick and Christina RockeChristopher HertzogGisela Labouvie-Vief and Daniel Gruhn and Harold MourasDavid F. Hultsch and Allison A. M. Bielak and Carolyn B. Crow and Roger A. DixonHayden B. Bosworth and Brian J. Ayotte

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
Part I Methodological Issues in the Study of Developmental Change	p. 7
1 History, Cohorts, and Patterns of Cognitive Aging	p. 9
2 Factor Invariance, Measurement, and Studying Development Over the Life Span	p. 39
3 A Multilevel Factor Analysis Perspective on Intellectual Development in Old Age	p. 53
4 The Search for Structure: The Temperamental Character of the Temperament and Character Inventory	p. 77
5 Convergence Between Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies: Cohort Matters	p. 101
Part II Cognitive, Social, and Psychological Development in Adulthood	p. 119
6 How Those Who Have, Thrive: Mechanisms Underlying the Well-Being of the Advantaged in Later Life	p. 121
7 The Rise and Fall of Control Beliefs in Adulthood: Cognitive and Biopsychosocial Antecedents and Consequences of Stability and Change Over 9 Years	p. 143
8 Use It or Lose It: An Old Hypothesis, New Evidence, and an Ongoing Controversy	p. 161
9 Dynamic Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Adult Development: Arousal, Stress, and the Processing of Affect	p. 181
10 The Way We Were: Perceptions of Past Memory Change in Older Adults	p. 197
Part III Applying Research Findings	p. 217
11 The Role of Cognitive Ability in Everyday Functioning: Medication Adherence as an Example	p. 219
Index	p. 241
About the Editors	p. 247

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