Aging and Creativity
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Aging and Creativity

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Aging and Creativity

About this book

Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. The book reviews and summarizes both lab-based and real-world-based studies. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. The book concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life.- Explores cognition and creativity from early adulthood through old age- Considers creativity and aging from an evidence-based perspective- Includes biological, psychological, and social approaches to aging and creativity- Covers age effects on perception, processing speed, working memory, and long-term memory- Discusses effects of health and social role changes with age on creativity- Examines links between productivity, motivation, and creativity over age

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Yes, you can access Aging and Creativity by Kenneth J. Gilhooly,Mary L.M. Gilhooly in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780128164013
eBook ISBN
9780128166154
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Cover image
  3. Title page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Creativity: introduction
  9. Chapter 2 Age and aging
  10. Chapter 3 Creative competence and age
  11. Chapter 4 Real world studies of creative productivity with age
  12. Chapter 5 Protective factors and risk factors for later life creativity
  13. Chapter 6 Creative thinking: restructuring and insight
  14. Chapter 7 Noncognitive factors in creative thinking: personality, psychopathology, and mood
  15. Chapter 8 Theories and models of creative processes
  16. Chapter 9 Aging effects on cognitive and noncognitive factors in creativity
  17. Chapter 10 Integrative discussion
  18. References
  19. Index