Learning and Memory in Normal Aging - Hardcover

Kausler, Donald H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0124026559 ISBN 13: 9780124026551

Verlag: Academic Press, 1994

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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.

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Donald Kausler is internationally renown in the field of aging research for his pioneering efforts in the field of aging memory. Since stepping down as editor of the journal Psychology and Aging he has devoted his time to compiling this comprehensive analysis and review of the effects of normal again on learning and memory. Beginning with discussions of classical and operant learning, Kausler discusses contemporary research on the learning of motor skills, stimulus discrimination, pattern recognition, verbal learning, and the transfer of learning to new domains. Written in an engaging and forthright style, the effects of normal aging are discussed with reference to sensory, short-term, long-term, episodic, semantic, and implicit memory.

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• Verlag: Academic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0124026559
• ISBN 13: 9780124026551
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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