Search:

Product Information All Elsevier Sites   Advanced Product Search
SiteStat.jsp
LEARNING AND MEMORY IN NORMAL AGING
Learning and Memory in Normal Aging

To order this title, and for more information, click here

By
Donald Kausler, University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.

Description
Donald Kausler is one of the founding fathers of research on aging. Internationally recognized, his efforts have formed the cornerstone of research on how age affects memory and learning. Now, in one comprehensive volume, Kausler condenses research findings in this realm into one engaging and forthright book. What are the effects of aging on classical and operant conditioning? How does age affect memory capacity/transfer of learning skill acquisition? Kausler addresses all of these issues and more in a clearly presented, easily understood review of major research findings.

Audience
Researchers, graduate students, and academics in gerontology and cognitive psychology.

Contents
Conditioning and Instrumental Learning. Skill Learning and Procedural Learning. Verbal Learning. Mnemonics and Transfer. Sensory Memory and Short-Term/Primary Memory. Models of Long-Term Episodic Memory. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Effortful Phenomena. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Discourse. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Automaticity and Rehearsal Independence. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Retention and Forgetting. Long-Term Episodic Memory: Implicit Memory. Generic (Semantic) Memory and Metamemory. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 544 pages, publication date: JUN-1994
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-402655-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-402655-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

Price and Ordering
Price:
GBP 94
EUR 110.95
USD 155
order now
Books and book related electronic products are priced in US dollars (USD), euro (EUR), and Great Britain Pounds (GBP). USD prices apply to the Americas and Asia Pacific. EUR prices apply in Europe and the Middle East. GBP prices apply to the UK and all other countries.
See also information about conditions of sale & ordering procedures, and links to our regional sales offices.

095/953
Last update: 22 Sep 2009
Book contents
Table of contents
Reviews
View other people's reviews
Submit your review
Bookmark this page
Recommend this publication
Overview of all books
Printer-friendly version   Printer-friendly version