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John C. Cavanaugh

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education

Adult Development

and Aging

Fredda Blanchard-Fields

Georgia Institute of Technology

Sixth Edition

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Brief Contents

Chapter 1

Studying Adult Development and Aging 1

Chapter 2

Neuroscience as a Basis for Adult Development

and Aging 38

Chapter 3

Physical Changes 65

Chapter 4

Longevity, Health, and Functioning 107

Chapter 5

Where People Live: Person-Environment

Interactions

149

Chapter 6

Attention and Memory 184

Chapter 7

Intelligence 233

Chapter 8

Social Cognition 280

Chapter 9

Personality 315

Chapter 10

Clinical Assessment, Mental Health, and Mental

Disorders

357

Chapter 11

Relationships 402

Chapter 12

Work, Leisure, and Retirement 447

Chapter 13

Dying and Bereavement 493

Chapter 14

Successful Aging 531

IV

BRIEF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1

Studying Adult Development and Aging 1

1.1 Perspectives on Adult Development

and Aging 3

The Life-Span Perspective

3

Discovering Development: Myths and Stereotypes

about Aging 4

The Demographics of Aging

5

Global Aging Quiz 11

1.2 Issues in Studying Adult Development and

Aging 13

The Forces of Development

13

Interrelations among the Forces: Developmental

In" uences

14

Culture and Ethnicity

15

The Meaning of Age

16

Core Issues in Development

17

Current Controversies: Does Personality in Young

Adulthood Determine Personality in Old Age?

18

1.3 Research Methods 20

Measurement in Adult Development

and Aging Research 20

General Designs for Research

22

Designs for Studying Development

23

Integrating Findings from Different Studies

27

How Do We Know?: Confl icts between Cross-

Sectional and Longitudinal Data

28

Conducting Research Ethically

30

• Social Policy Implications 32

Summary

32

Review Questions

34

Integrating Concepts in Development

35

Key Terms

35

Resources

36

Chapter 2

Neuroscience as a Basis for Adult Development

and Aging 38

2.1 The Neuroscience Approach 40

Implications of the Developmental Forces

41

Neuroscience Tools

41

Neuroscience Perspectives

42

Discovering Development: What Do People

Believe about Brain Fitness?

43

2.2 Neuroscience and Cognitive Aging 44

Structure of the Brain

44

Age-Related Changes in Neurochemical Properties

47

Age-Related Changes in Brain Activity

47

Functional Consequences of Brain Deterioration

48

Culture, Neuroimaging, and Aging

48

Compensation and Prefrontal Bilaterality

49

Current Controversies 51

2.3 Neural Plasticity and the Aging Brain 52

How Do We Know?: Aerobic Fitness and

Hippocampal Volume in Older Adults

55

2.4 Neuroscience and Socio-Emotional Aging 56

Emotional Processing and the Brain

57

Aging and Emotional Processing

57
Neurological Recruitment Underlying the Positivity Effect in Memory 58

• Social Policy Implications 60

Summary

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