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... roles. These themes are discussed in the context of literature on adulthood, aging, and women’s development. Theoretical approaches that converge in discussing these themes include Cooley’s ‘looking-glass self, Baldwin’s symbolic interactionism, Lacan’s mirror stage, James’ ‘I-me’ distinction, and life...

...Timothy A. Salthouse Questions can be raised regarding the progress that has been achieved in accounting for the well-documented negative relations between chronological age during adulthood and fluid or process aspects of cognition. Advances in knowledge may have been limited in part because many...

...Nancy L. Mergler; Michael D. Goldstein Biological theories of adaptation are used to generate a model of human cognitive development in which physiological and cognitive changes in aged persons can be understood as an adaptive stage of development in its own right. These changes, within...

... adults in a large, representative population, and to assess the relative importance of age, sex, income, education and perceived health on performance. 447 community-dwelling women and men age 60 or over were interviewed. Most passed the tasks, but performance was linked to income (for the matrix task...

...Judith Gonda The 3-day convocation on the changing concepts of work, aging, and retirement presented by the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center and held recently at the University of Southern California is reviewed. Synopses of presentations made by a wide array of key individuals representing...

...Carrie W. Crosson; Elizabeth A. Robertson-Tchabo The relationship between age and creativity among a sample of 271 manifestly creative women aged 23–87 years was studied. Creativity, as measured by scores on the Barron-Welsh Art Scales, showed no significant negative correlation with age. However...

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... periods of life, both cognitively and emotionally. It is hypothesized that optimal development in adult life includes explicit awareness of these modalities and that such awareness is a feature of ‘wisdom’ in later life. 23 12 2009 © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 1984 Copyright / Drug Dosage...

... specialization, concern with concrete pragmatics, and pressures towards social system stability are all seen to be aspects of progressive, directional, and structural change in adulthood. Suggestions bearing on interpretations of adult cognitive change are offered. 23 12 2009 © 1980 S. Karger AG...

...P.H. Braun A problem in researching the effects of aging hasbeen the identification of ‘optimal’ age groups akin to developmental stages. This paper shows how factor analysis was used in connection with attitudinal data to segment the age range from15 to 64 years. The resulting five age groups were...

... interpretations capture a rich variety of performances during childhood, they fail to represent adequately the thought and emotions of mature and creative persons. For an interpretation of adulthood and aging, a return to the dialectic basis is necessary. Such a reorganization can proceed from any of the four...

...Nancy Wadsworth Denney Results from a variety of seemingly unrelated research areas indicate that between the ages of 6 and 9, there is a change from a tendency to categorize according to complementary criteria to a tendency to categorize according to similarity criteria. For example, younger...

...D.F. Hultsch The research reviewed illustrates how organizational processes (grouping and relating) influence memory in general, and adult age differences in memory in particular. Free recall data have indicated that the subject segments the learning material into integrated groups which become his...

...R. Schmitz-Scherzer; I. Strödel Men intensify 3 out of 55 leisure-time activities with age, and 2 of 55 they practise less often. Age changes in leisure-time behavior in women are infrequent: only 3 activities are reported less with age.There are no results that justify a conclusion towards any...

...Jan Dynda Sinnott Everyday, familiar materials and formal materials were used to test the Piagetian classification and formal operational abilities of highly educated adults of both sexes. 30 subjects were in their 30s, and 30 were of retirement age. These adult subjects did not show mastery...

...David F. Hultsch; John R. Nesselroade; Judy K. Plemons Two successive free recall tasks and eight ability measures were presented to women of five age-groups to investigate the changing relation between performance and ability measures at various stages of the learning process during adulthood...

... analysis. 18 12 2009 Adaptation Aging Change, rate of Cohort Dialectics Environment Heredity Intelligence Specialization © 1978 S. Karger AG, Basel 1978 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other...

... categories for sorting human faces were derived – physical, age, psychological, demographic, and preferential. No systematic age or sex differences for sorting male photos were obtained. For female photos, however, age and sex differences were observed. On the whole, the results failed to confirm other...

...Patricia K. Alpaugh; James E. Birren The purpose of this study was to explore possible explanations of the decline in old age of highly creative contributions. This present study examined whether two explanations were more important than decrements in intelligence. These were (1) decrements...