Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life Book

Part I. Adult Cognitive Abilities in the Laboratory and in Real-life Settings: Basic Theoretical and Methodological Issues;

1. Introduction to

Part I: the how, when and why of studying everyday cognition David C. Rubin;

Part IA. Systematic Approaches to Laboratory and Real-world Research:
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;

Part IB. Combining Laboratory and Real-world Research:
6. The laboratory and ecology: supplementary sources of data for memory research Harry P. Bahrick;
7. Issues of regularity 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;

Part II. Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life: Findings in Real-life Settings:
10. Introduction to

Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitive abilities in everyday life? Leonard W. Poon;

Part IIA. Everyday Cognitive Abilities:
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, Arthur Wingfield and Leonard W. Poon;
14. The effects of aging on perceived and generated memories Gillian Cohen andDorothy Faulkner;
15. Aging and word retrieval: naturalistic, clinical and laboratory data Nancy L. Bowles, Loraine K. Obler and Leonard W. Poon;
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;
18. The cognitive ecology of problem solving Alan A. Hartley;
19. Everyday problem solving: methodological issues, research findings and a model Nancy Wadsworth Denney;
20. Prospective/intentional memory and aging: memory as adaptive action Jan D. Sinnott;

Part IIB. Concomitant Influences:
21. Motivation and aging Lawrence C. Perlmuter and Richard A. Monty;
22. Questionnaire research on metamemory and aging: issues of structure and function Roger A. Dixon;
23. The importance of awareness in memory aging John C. Cavanaugh;
24. Age and expertise: responding to Talland's challenge Neil Charness;
25. World-knowledge systems Cameron J. Camp;
26. Comments on aging memory and its everyday operations Donald H. Kausler;

Part III. Cognitive Enhancement and Aging: Clinical and Educational Applications:
27. Introduction to

Part III: approaches to practical applications Barbara A. Wilson and Leonard W. Poon;

Part IIIA. Issues and Perspectives:
28. Varieties of memory compensation by older adults in episodic remembering Lars Bäckman;
29. Improvement with cognitive training: which old dogs learn what tricks? Sherry L. Willis;

Part IIIB. Enhancement Approaches:
30. Planning practical memory training for the aged Robin L. West;
31. Mnemonics as modified for use by the elderly Jerome A. Yesavage, Danielle Lapp and Javaid I. Sheikh;

Part IIIC. Designing Programs for Cognitive Rehabilitation:
32. Designing memory-therapy programs Barbara A. Wilson;
33. Management of memory problems in a hospital setting Nadina B. Lincoln;
34. Home-based cognitive rehabilitation with the elderly Nicholas J. Moffat;
35. Memory retraining: everyday needs and future prospects Herbert F. Crovitz; Indexes.