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
Table of Contents
ForewordPrefaceSection I: Concepts, Theory, MethodsChapter 1 – Theoretical Perspectives for the Psychology of Aging in a Lifespan ContextK. Warner SchaieChapter 2 – Methodological Considerations for the Study of Adult Development and AgingStuart W. S. MacDonald and Robert S. StawskiChapter 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 ZissimopoulosSection II: Bio-Psychosocial Factors in AgingChapter 4 – Sex Hormones and Cognitive AgingAnna C. McCarrey, Melissa H. Kitner-Triolo, and Susan M. ResnickChapter 5 – The aging Mind in Transition: Amyloid Deposition and Progression Toward Alzheimer's DiseaseDenise C. Park and Michelle E. FarrellChapter 6 – Research on Human Plasticity in Adulthood: A Lifespan AgendaSimone Kühn and Ulman LindenbergerChapter 7 – Cognitive and Physical Aging: Genetic Influences and Gene-Environment InterplayChandra A. Reynolds and Deborah G. FinkelChapter 8 – Memory: Behavior and Neural BasisCindy Lustig and Ziyong LinChapter 9 – Audition and Language Comprehension in Adult aging: Stability in the Fce of ChangeArthur Wingfield and Amanda LashChapter 10 – Exercise, Cognition, and HealthKirk I. Erickson and Teresa Liu-AmbroseSection III: Behavioral ProcessesChapter 11 – Personality and Health: Reviewing Recent Research and Setting a Directive for the FuturePatrick L. Hill and Brent W. RobertsChapter 12 – Cognitive Training in Later AdulthoodSherry L. Willis and Sylvie BellevilleChapter 13 – Executive Functions and Neurocognitive agingPatricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Sara B. Festini, and Tiffany K. JantzChapter 14 – Social Interrelations in Aging: The Sample Case of Married CouplesChristian A. Hoppmann and Denis GerstorfChapter 15 – Age Differences in the Connection of Mood and Cognition: Evidence from Studies of Mood Congruent EffectsBob G. Knight, Sarah Rastegar, and Seungyoun KimChapter 16 – Psychological Vitality in the Oldest OldJacqui Smith and Lindsay H. RyanSection IV: Complex ProcessesChapter 17 – Cross-Cultural Psychology of AgingHelene H. Fung and Da JiangChapter 18 – Work, Retirement and AgingMo Wang and Junqi ShiChapter 19 – Financial Decision-Making and Capacity in Older AdultsDaniel C. Marson, Deborah L. Kerr, and Donald G. McLarenChapter 20 – Technology, Gaming, and Social NetworkingNeil Charness and Walter R. BootChapter 21 – Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies for Late-Life Mood and Anxiety DisordersLisa C. Barry and Amy L. ByersChapter 22 – Late-Life Sleep and Sleep DisordersChristina S. McCrae, Megan E. Petrov, Natalie Dautovich, and Kenneth L. LichsteinChapter 23 – Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Dementia and their CaregiversLinda Teri, Glenise McKenzie, and Christina A. CoulterChapter 24 – The Psychology of Death and Dying in Later LifeDavid E. Balk
