This volume of the ARGG is devoted to the behavioral sciences, with particular attention given to topics in experimental and applied psychology. With the rapid rate of research in this field of aging, the contributors address a number of important basic and applied topics that are underrepresented in other literature.
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K. Warner Schaie, PhD, is the Evan Pugh Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Pennsylvania State University. He also holds an appointment as Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Washington, an honorary Dr. Phil. from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, and an honorary Sc.D. degree from West Virginia University. He received the Kleemeier Award for Distinguished Research Contributions from the Gerontological Society of America, the MENSA lifetime career award, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions award from the American Psychological Association. He is author or editor of 51 books including the textbook Adult Development and Aging (5th edition, with S. L. Willis) and the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (6th edition, with J. E. Birren). He has directed the Seattle Longitudinal Study of cognitive aging since 1956 and is the author of more than 275 journal articles and chapters on the psychology of aging. His current research interest is the life course of adult intelligence, its antecedents and modifiability, the early detection of risk for dementia, as well as methodological issues in the developmental sciences.
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spatial orientation, geriatric psychophysiology, reading comprehension and aging, accommodative identity style, assimilative identity style, balanced identity style, stereotyping hypothesis, older adult workers, factor pattern weights, longitudinal factor model, longitudinal occasions, oddball studies, intellectual aging, cognitive training research, dedifferentiation hypothesis, intellectual abilities and age, industrial gerontology, set size function, identity accommodation, age deficits, aging deficits, spatial orientation ability, adult age differences, factor covariances, adult psychological development Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Gerontology, Experimental Aging Research, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Developmental Psychology, Academic Press, Englewood Cliffs, American Psychological Association, Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, The Gerontologist, Journal of Experimental Psychology, American Journal of Psychiatry, National Institute, Raven Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, Journal of Educational Psychology, Verbal Meaning, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Government Printing Office, Neurobiology of Aging, Journal of Applied Psychology Browse Sample Pages:
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New York, Journal of Gerontology, Experimental Aging Research, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Developmental Psychology, Academic Press, Englewood Cliffs, American Psychological Association, Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, The Gerontologist, Journal of Experimental Psychology, American Journal of Psychiatry, National Institute, Raven Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, Journal of Educational Psychology, Verbal Meaning, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Government Printing Office, Neurobiology of Aging, Journal of Applied Psychology Browse Sample Pages:
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