Social cognition and aging /

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Imprint:San Diego : Academic Press, c1999.
Description:xxiv, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3855963
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Other authors / contributors:Hess, Thomas M.
Blanchard-Fields, Fredda.
ISBN:0123452600 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • The Social Cognitive Perspective and the Study of Focus on Self
  • The Sense of Control and Cognitive Aging: Toward a Model of Mediational Processes
  • Beliefs About Memory and Aging
  • Memory Self-Efficacy in Its Social Cognitive Context
  • Possible Selves in Adulthood: Incorporating Telenomic Relevance into Studies of the Self
  • Sources of Resilience in the Aging Self: Toward Integrating Perspectives
  • Autobiographical Memory and Social Cognition: Development of the Remembered Self in Adulthood
  • Section II. Focus on Others
  • A Social Cognitive Perspective on Age Stereotypes
  • Age and Memory: Perceptions of Forgetful Young and Older Adults
  • Social Schematicity and Causal Attributions
  • Cognitive and Knowledge-Based Influences on Social Representations
  • Focus on the Social Context
  • Interactions Between Self and Other
  • Exploring Cognition in Interactive Situations: The Aging of N + 1 Minds
  • Moral Development in Maturity: Life-Span Perspectives on the Processes of Successful Aging
  • The Role of Time in the Setting of Social Goals Across the Life Span
  • Social Cognition and a Psychological Approach to an Art of Life
  • Index