The Psychology of Aging: Canadian Research in an International Context

Dixon, Roger A.; Cohen, Anna‐Lisa

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“…Some groups never succeed in coordinating their efforts in collaboration, some individuals are unable to contribute to the group, and some individuals inhibit the whole interacting process due to their actions (Dixon, 1996). Competence also requires time to develop and to be maintained (Dixon & Cohen, 2001)…”

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“…As mentioned before, the performance in collaboration may show a too negative picture of elderly couples if measured only by traditional ability testing (cf. Dixon & Cohen, 2001). There is a need to refine methods or search for alternative methods to find out more about when a possible compensation may be at hand in collaboration.…”

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“…There is a powerful connection between physical and cognitive functions (Baltes, 1997), but there are some mechanisms to cope with the losses (Baltes, 1997; Freund & Baltes 2002; Heckhausen, 1997; Dixon, 2000). Experience, plasticity and competence vary significantly between persons and individual life span, but also inside for every person and his/her individual life span (Baltes, 1997; Dixon & Cohen, 2001). Many old persons are able to compensate for a decline in memory functions by cognitive support (Bäckman, 1991, 1992; Dixon, 1996).…”

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Compensating strategies in collaborative remembering in very old couples

Johansson

Andersson

Rönnberg

2005

Scandinavian J Psychology

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This study investigates collaborative memory performance in very old married couples working in two types of participant constellations, and with two types of memory tasks, i.e. working as couples, or as individuals in episodic or semantic memory tasks. Sixty-two old married couples were a priori classified as high or low on two dimensions suggested to be important for successful collaboration, i.e. responsibility (how division of responsibility was organized) and agreement (how they mutually agreed on each other's view). The episodic memory task was immediate recall of short stories. The semantic memory tasks were to answer questions about names, places, and concepts. The results suggested that: (1) groups outperformed a single individual, but (2) groups in general suffered from collaboration relative to the predicted potential in episodic tasks only, thus replicating earlier results. Nevertheless, (3) the couples scoring high on division of responsibility achieved the same productivity as nominal pairs (i.e. the predicted potential); (4) the couples scoring high on the agreement dimension showed that they were not as affected by collaboration, but then performed less well in "absolute" performance. Finally, the results were discussed in terms of optimal compensation strategies, especially for elderly couples.

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Compensating strategies in collaborative remembering in very old couples

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Rönnberg

2005

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…In an earlier overview designed for nonpsychologists, Dixon and Cohen (2001) adumbrated several contemporary themes of the field. Such general characteristics help convey the general picture of the psychology of aging, but (legitimately) are not discussed explicitly in this Handbook .…”

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Should there be a Handbook of The Psychology of Aging?

Binstock

Dixon

2002

The Gerontologist

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This is the only book about which to ask the provocative question in the title: Should there be a handbook of the psychology of aging? Simply put: Yes, and there are no pretenders. There is no other book that fills so fluidly the spacious dimensions and farflung corners of the psychology of aging. To be sure, there are numerous and excellent textbooks, advanced and broad-ranging compendia, and even a growing assortment of pertinent topical handbooks (e.g., aging and cognition, aging and emotion, aging and the family). None, however, has taken on the extensive range of aging-related phenomena considered principally "psychological" in character. None has attempted this sizable task repeatedly; previous editions of the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging have appeared in 1977Aging have appeared in , 1985Aging have appeared in , 1990Aging have appeared in , and 1996. The editors, James E. Birren and K. Warner Schaie, have been doyens-intellectual and political leaders in the psychology of aging-since at least the 1960s. They have guided this timely and well-spaced series seamlessly throughout its run, building its history and honoring its legacy.For this fifth edition, the editors assembled a talented set of associate editors-Ronald Abeles, Margaret Gatz, and Timothy Salthouse-and a formidable cast of authors for 24 chapters. The authors are mostly American based-with a smattering of Europeans-but all are visible, if not household, names in their specialty areas. The express purpose of the collection is to provide a definitive reference source regarding behavioral and psychological aspects of human aging. How this is accomplished-and whether it should be attempted in the modern era-are the principal themes of this essay. Accordingly, I begin with a broad sketch of the field and the vital facts of the book purporting to cover it. What is the Psychology of Aging?In principle, this question may be answered in at least three ways. First, an altogether tautological (and uninformative) answer would be that the psychology of aging is what psychologists of aging study. Although this description purchases little illumination, it at least could be used to document, if not justify, the important facts that (a) the psychology of aging covers enormously broad territory, and (b) it would be difficult to settle on a single, much less universally acclaimed, categorical definition. Second, a generic (and still noncategorical) answer might advance the search for a definition in the following way: The psychology of aging includes all behavioral (writ large) processes and how they change across adulthood. This unassuming definition at least establishes some common ground (i.e., behavior and change). However, it too advances only marginally our understanding of the field. Perhaps surprisingly, among psychologists neither behavior nor change are entirely uncontested concepts; both are subject to multiple and sometimes incompatible renditions. A third cluster of more categorical and specific answers could represent the view that the ps...

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Current Awareness

2001

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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In order to keep subscribers up‐to‐date with the latest developments in their field, John Wiley & Sons are providing a current awareness service in each issue of the journal. The bibliography contains newly published material in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Each bibliography is divided into 9 sections: 1 Books, Reviews & Symposia; 2 General; 3 Assessment; 4 Epidemiology; 5 Therapy; 6 Care; 7 Dementia; 8 Depression; 9 Psychology. Within each section, articles are listed in alphabetical order with respect to author. If, in the preceding period, no publications are located relevant to any one of these headings, that section will be omitted

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The Psychology of Aging: Canadian Research in an International Context

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