Personality and Aging: Cognitive perspectives and processes

Eileen Kranz Graham; Margie E Lachman

doi:10.1002/9781118392966.ch13

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Personality and Aging: Cognitive perspectives and processes

Eileen Kranz Graham and Margie E Lachman

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Adulthood and Aging, pp.254-272

Wiley‐Blackwell

01/05/2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118392966.ch13

Abstract

conscientiousness

coping with cognitive losses

memory self‐efficacy (MSE)

openness, and visual spatial ability

personality and aging, cognitive processes

personality traits, and cognitive functioning

personality, core factor in defining a person

personality, predictor of cognitive performance

stability of individual differences

“cognitively superior” older adults

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction and Overview Interaction of Personality Traits and Cognitive Functioning Other Approaches to Personality: Personal Action Constructs Personality and Coping with Cognitive Losses Summary and Conclusions References

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Title: Personality and Aging
Creators: Eileen Kranz Graham - Brandeis University's, USA
Margie E Lachman - Brandeis University, Department of Psychology
Publication Details: The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Adulthood and Aging, pp.254-272
Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell; Oxford, UK
Number of pages: 19
Identifiers: 9924114485201921
Academic Unit: Heller School for Social Policy and Management; Department of Psychology
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter

Personality and Aging: Cognitive perspectives and processes

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