December 2016
·
44 Reads
Presents an obituary for James E. “Jim” Birren, who passed away on January 15, 2016, at the age of 97. A pioneer in aging research, Jim is considered by many to be the father of modern gerontological psychology.
What is this page?
This page lists works of an author who doesn't have a ResearchGate profile or hasn't added the works to their profile yet. It is automatically generated from public (personal) data to further our legitimate goal of comprehensive and accurate scientific recordkeeping. If you are this author and want this page removed, please let us know.
Publications (3)
December 2015
·
39 Reads
·
4 Citations
The Seattle Longitudinal Study has charted the course of selected cognitive abilities from young adulthood through advanced old age, including individual differences, differential patterns of change, and cohort differences. Contextual, health, and personality variables have been identified that explain many of the individual differences in change and provide a basis for the investigation of interventions designed to slow cognitive aging. Normal cognitive aging has been related to issues of early diagnosis of dementia. Parent?offspring and sibling similarity have been studied, as have the influence of original and current family environments on adult cognitive performance. More recently the study has investigated the influence of the APOE gene and health behaviors on normal aging, as well as the relationship between brain changes studied by means of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging of selected subsamples of normally aging individuals. Significant contributions have also been made to research methods for investigating aging and to theoretical conceptions of normal aging.
January 2015
·
98 Reads
·
6 Citations
A general developmental model is described with the components of age, cohort, and time-of-measurement (period). Two of these components are always confounded in the simple developmental designs of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and time lag approaches. More complex sequential designs are then presented which allow estimation of each separate effect and their interaction. The cohort sequential design allows separation of age and cohort effects. The time sequential design allows separation of age and time-of-measurement (period) effects. The cross sequential design allows separation of cohort and time-of-measurement (period) effects. It is also pointed out that use of a mixed model approach to test convergence hypothesis that ignores random effects will result in the underestimation of within-subject effects and overestimation of between-subject effects. Examples of properly analyzed convergence analyses approaches are identified. Keywords: adult developmental psychology; aging and development psychology; cognitive development; data analysis in psychology; experimental design; individual differences; lifespan and developmentalpsychology; measurement in psychology; methodology; modeling
Citations (2)
... More generally, does a demanding technological environment promote cognitive competence and an impoverished technological environment reduce competence? The available literature from studies of older persons (Arbuckle, Gold, & Andres, 1986;Schaie, 1983), in work settings (Kohn & Schooler, 1981;Miller, Slomcznsld, & Kohn, 1985), and in school settings (Salomon, 1990) presents suggestive evidence that interactions, with craft technologies raise people's cognitive competence and interactions with mechanized technologies reduce competence. The implication of this evidence for understanding the social origins of cognitive development and decline remains to be worked out. ...
- Citing Chapter
December 2015
... Thus, the present study substantially extends understanding of normative parent-adolescent relationship changes in early to midadolescence to a more diverse sample of Latinx families and to an emerging immigrant area. For warmth specifically, our study extends beyond comparing mean differences between two adolescent groups (e.g., early vs. middle adolescence; Fuligni, 1998), which are highly susceptible to cohort effects, to estimation of longitudinal trajectories using accelerated longitudinal design that reduces such confounding (Schaie, 2015). ...
- Citing Chapter
January 2015