A lifetime of intelligence : follow-up studies of the Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947 /

"Advances in medicine and technology have dramatically extended our average life span. Despite these breakthroughs, cognitive longevity continues to vary among individuals. What causes a person's intelligence to diminish over a lifetime? What are the effects of this cognitive aging, and to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deary, Ian J.
Otros Autores: Whalley, Lawrence J., Starr, John M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Intellect > Case studies.
Intellect.
Age factors in disease.
Children.
Questionnaires.
Intelligence
Age Factors
Aging > physiology
Child
Cognition Disorders > epidemiology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Retrospective Studies
Intelligence > Études de cas.
Intelligence.
Maladies > Facteurs liés à l'âge.
Enfants.
children (people by age group)
questionnaires.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
Questionnaires
Children
Age factors in disease
Intellect
Lebenslauf
Feldforschung
Intelligenzquotient
Scotland
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical overview
  • Cognitive epidemiology : does childhood IQ affect illness later in life or survival to old age?
  • What causes cognitive aging?
  • Other associations with childhood IQ
  • Can lifetime cognitive changes be estimated without premorbid test scores?

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