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1st Edition

Theoretical Perspectives on Cognitive Aging

By Timothy A. Salthouse Copyright 1991
450 Pages
by Psychology Press

450 Pages
by Psychology Press

450 Pages
by Psychology Press
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The phenomenon of age-related cognitive decline has long been controversial, both in terms of mere existence, and with respect to how it is explained. Some researchers have dismissed it as an artifact of declining health or lower levels of education, and others have attributed it to general changes occurring in the external environment. Still other interpretations have been based on the "use it or... Read more
Contents: The Need for, and Requirements of, Theories of Cognitive Aging. What Needs to Be Explained? Environmental Change. Disuse Interpretations. Qualitative Differences: Structures, Strategies, and the Relation Between Competence and Performance. Analytical Approaches to Localization: I. Memory Abilities. Analytical Approaches to Localization: II. Reasoning and Spatial Abilities. Reduced Processing Resources. Final Words and Future Directions.

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Timothy A. Salthouse

"The important contribution of this book is its critical analysis of the different frameworks explaining cognitive aging....This book should be read by anyone doing or considering research in the field of cognitive aging."
—Contemporary Psychology

"Salthouse provides a needed authoritative overview and theoretical synthesis of research on cognitive aging....A definitive reference work..."
—CHOICE

"Salthouse's scholarship is encyclopedic. Every chapter is chock-full of quotations and references. Readers who consider themselves expert in some topic will be grateful for citations of studies they have missed....Every theoretical issue is meticulously dissected....Problems in conceptualizing issues are laid out with greater clarity than....in any other volume on cognitive aging. The discussions of the environmental change and disuse perspectives are particularly noteworthy in these respects. This is a volume that no researcher in cognitive aging can afford to miss."
—The Amercian Journal of Psychology

"...a major scholarly achievement....I view this provocative and excellent volume as must reading for anyone conducting research in cognitive aging."
—Behavior, Health, and Aging

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