Developmental Influences on Adult Intelligence
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This book lays out the reasons why we should study cognitive development in adulthood, and presents the history, latest data, and results from the Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS), which now extends to over forty-five years. The SLS is organized around five questions: does intelligence change uniformly throughout adulthood, or are there different life-course-ability patterns? At what age and at what magnitude can decrement in ability be reliably detected? What are the patterns and magnitude of generational differences? What accounts for individual differences in age-related change in adulthood? Can the intellectual decline that increases with age be reversed by educational intervention? Based on work on the SLS, this book presents a conceptual model. The model represents this book's author's view on the factors that influence cognitive development throughout the human lifespan, and provides a rationale for the various influences that have been investigated — genetic factors, early and current family environment, life styles, the experience of chronic disease, and various personality attributes. The data in this volume include the 1998 longitudinal cycle of the SLS. In light of both new data and revised analyses, psychometric and neuropsychological assessments have been linked in long-term data to aid in the early identification of risk for dementia in later life. The book also presents new data and concludes on the impact of personality on cognition. It includes correlation m…
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Current cohorts may be peaking intellectually at later ages or maintaining their peak level of functioning until a later chronological age.
“There is strong suggestive evidence that current cohorts may be peaking at later ages or maintaining their peak level of functioning until a later chronological age (Schaie, 2005).”
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All cognitive tests showed high test-retest reliabilities over 1 month (N = 705; r ≥ .78).
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- Authors
- Schaie, K. W.
- Corresponding author
- Schaie, K. Warner
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2005-02-24
- OpenAlex
- W2478449778
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.52
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- adult intelligence, Seattle Longitudinal Study, age-related cognitive decline, generational differences, educational intervention, genetic factors, family environment, lifestyle, chronic disease, personality and cognition, dementia risk, lifespan cognitive development
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