Aging and Behavior. A comprehensive Integration of Research Findings.

Botwinick, Jack:

ISBN 10: 0826114407 / ISBN 13: 9780826114402

Edité par Springer Publ.; NY, 1973

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VII; 326 S.; Abb. Umschl. berieben u. mit kl. Läsuren. - Who Are the Aged? - The number of old people - Life expectancy - Where old people live - Income - Health - Biological and Environmental Factors - Biological factors - Environmental factors - Psychological and Social Factors in Longevity and Survival - Psychological factors - Social factors - Sexuality and Sexual Relations - The myth of the sexless aged - Sexual waning - Limiting factors in sexual fulfillment - Sexual aging in perspective - Turning Inward - Ego development - Disengagement - Personality changes -Social forces - Changes in sex roles - Simple Rigidity - More than one kind of rigidity - Rigidity is related to other functions - Multidimensional Rigidity - Three rigidities and I.Q. - Five rigidities, I.Q., and speed Speed and problem difficulty - Longitudinal research - Personality and Cognition in Cautious Behavior - Many contexts and forms of cautiousness - Structure and direction - Factors related to cautiousness - More than one kind of cautiousness? - Cautiousness in Decision - Risk of gain with chance of loss - Reluctance to act versus cautiousness - Practical situations and consequences - Contact with the Physical Environment - Seeing - Hearing - Taste and smell - Pain - Touch - Processing Sense Information - Sequential integration - Temporal integration of nonsequential information - Spatial integration - Anoxia, another model - Compensatory adjustments - Slow Response to Environmental Stimulation - Input and peripheral mechanisms - Central mechanisms - Psychophsiological correlates - Complex stimuli and responses - Just how important is response slowing? - Intelligence - What the test measures - Age decline - Age-sensitive and age-insensitive measures - Organization of abilities - Initial and later levels of ability - Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies - Biological mechanisms - Problem Solving - Cognitive factors - Abstract and concrete thought -Inflexibility - Redundancy - Order in the search for information - Sex differences - Creativity - Learning and Performance - Stimulus pacing - Motivation - Task meaningfulness - Aids and Types of Learning - Aids - Types - Memory Theory - Relationship between learning and memory - More than one mechanism of memory? - Phases of memory - Retrieving Memories - Utilization of memory - Old memories - Clinical research - Research Methods - Age and culture confounded - Age and time of measurement confounded - Cohort and time of measurement confounded - Interpretation of the confounds - Operational and Conceptual Issues in Research - Longitudinal studies - Sampling problems - Gradients - Age, an independent variable - Test usefulness - Describing age group differences. ISBN 0826114407 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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• Titre: Aging and Behavior. A comprehensive Integration of Research Findings.
• Éditeur: Springer Publ.; NY
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: allemand
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0826114407
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780826114402
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Gut
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychologie

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Book by Botwinick Jack