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Gilewski, Michael J.; Zelinski, Elizabeth M. – 1982
Self-report research has inconclusively linked complaints of poor memory functioning, memory performance, and intellectual ability with depression in older adults. In order to investigate more conclusively the correlation between these variables as well as to investigate the effect of age differences, 159 older adults (49 young-old, aged 55-70; 60…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes
Waddell, Kathryn J.; Rogoff, Barbara – 1980
Although age-related memory differences in adulthood occur in a variety of memory tasks, most of these tasks represent uncommon memory demands. An investigation of everyday memory demands explored the effect of contextual organization on memory performance of middle aged (N=20) and older (N=20) women. Tasks involved reconstruction of spatial…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Kleinsasser, L.D., Comp.; Harris, Dale B., Comp. – 1966
Based largely on research in adult development and aging, these readings and discussion questions pertain to such aspects of development and adjustment in middle life as the following: individual differences in aging; biological changes through the adult years; changes in the physical senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and pain)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Age, Age Differences