A psychology of orientation : time awareness across life stages and in dementia / / Allen Jack Edwards

• Autore: Edwards Allen Jack <1926->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.7/53
• Soggetto topico: Time perception; Time perspective; Time - Psychological aspects; Dementia - Treatment
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- A PSYCHOLOGY OF ORIENTATION -- Contents -- Illustrations -- FIGURE -- TABLE -- Preface -- PART I The Nature of Time -- CHAPTER 1 The Substance of Time -- THE MEANING OF TIME -- DEFINING TIME -- THE CONCEPTS OF TIME -- Time -- The Units of Time -- CHAPTER 2 The Heralds of Time -- TIME IN THE CLASSIC PERIOD -- THE MIDDLE AGES -- RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION -- RATIONALITY TO ENLIGHTENMENT -- TIME AND THE MODERN ERA -- PART II The Riddle of Time -- CHAPTER 3 Defining Time Orientation -- MODELS OF TIME ORIENTATION -- Qualitative Models and Studies -- Models of Time in Daily Life -- ORIENTATION AND BRAIN FUNCTION -- Time Estimation -- ORIENTATION AND PERSONAL VARIABLES -- Chronological Age -- Intellect -- CYCLICAL TIME DIMENSIONS: DAY, WEEK, MONTH -- Simultaneity and Duration -- CHAPTER 4 Developing Time Concepts -- TIME ORIENTATION IN CHILDHOOD -- Piaget on Children's Time Awareness -- CONTEMPORARY STUDIES OF CHILDREN'S TIME AWARENESS -- Personal Variables in Children's Time Awareness -- DEVELOPING DIACHRONIC THINKING -- CHAPTER 5 Defining Time Concepts -- VARIABLES IN ADOLESCENT TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT -- Measures of Temporal Effects -- EFFECTS OF ADVERSE CONDITIONS -- Socially Catastrophic Events -- Socially Minor Stressors -- MEMORY IN TIME PERSPECTIVE -- Internal Tempo -- TIME PERCEPTION IN ADOLESCENCE -- TIME ORIENTATION IN THE ADULT YEARS -- Past Time Orientation -- Present and Future Time Orientation -- CHAPTER 6 Finalizing Time Concepts -- THE STUDY OF AGING -- Aging in Context -- Aging in Outcome -- Aging in Expression -- Aging in Time -- RECENT RESEARCH ON TIME PERSPECTIVE IN THE AGED -- Cross-Age Studies -- Time and Social Variables -- Personal Factors in Time Perspective during Old Age -- THE CONTEXT OF TIME ORIENTATION -- Model 1 -- Model 2 -- Model 3 -- PART III The Impact of Time -- CHAPTER 7 Defining Time Disorientation. ; THE NATURE OF DEMENTIA -- THE FACES OF DEMENTIA -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Multi-Infarct Dementia -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Pick's Disease -- Huntington's Disease -- Parkinson's Disease -- Equivalences -- Differences -- THE TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA -- THE BEHAVIORAL IMPORTANCE OF DEMENTIA -- CHAPTER 8 Disorientation in Perspective -- THE PROCESS OF DEMENTIA -- Effects of Existence in Time and Space -- THE NATURE OF TIME ORIENTATION -- Definition -- Development -- MEASUREMENT OF TIME ORIENTATION -- Current Popular Measurements -- CHANGING THE ORIENTATION -- The Role of Neurofibrillary Tangles -- OTHER PERSPECTIVES ON ORIENTATION -- Cerebral Disease -- Korsakoff's Syndrome -- A Contrasting Model -- Social Models -- CHAPTER 9 Physical Properties of Time Relations -- THE MEANING OF TIME AND SPACE -- Autobiographical Memory in Dementia -- PHYSICAL CHANGES IN THE BRAIN -- Brain Structures Involved in Dementia -- DEMENTIA AND BRAIN STRUCTURE -- THE STUDY AND EVALUATION OF DISORIENTATION -- Relationships with Daily Life -- Relationships with Nerve Cell Degeneration -- Other Conditions and Disorientation -- TREATMENT OF DEMENTING CONDITIONS -- CHAPTER 10 Restructuring Past, Present, and Future -- THE STUDY OF DEMENTIA -- TIME AND DEMENTIA -- DISORIENTATION IN TIME -- THE EFFECTS OF DISORIENTATION -- The Present in Dementia -- The Past -- The Future -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
• Titolo autorizzato: A psychology of orientation
• ISBN: 979-82-16-00277-2; 1-280-42272-6; 9786610422722; 0-313-01091-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815474703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II