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Part I. Adult Cognitive Abilities in the Laboratory and in Real-lifeSettings: Basic Theoretical and Methodological Issues; 1. Introductionto Part I: the how, when and why of studying everyday cognition DavidC. Rubin; Part IA. Systematic Approaches to Laboratory and Real-worldResearch: 2. Representative design and the quality of generalizationLewis Petrinovich; 3. The myth of external validity Douglas G. Mook; 4.Functional explanations of memory Darryl Bruce; 5. General systemstheory: a rationale for the study of everyday memory Jan D. Sinnott;Part IB. Combining Laboratory and Real-world Research: 6. Thelaboratory and ecology: supplementary sources of data for memoryresearch Harry P. Bahrick; 7. Issues of regularity and control:confessions of a regularity freak David C. Rubin; 8. Finding the bloodyhorse Alan Baddeley; 9. Some bad and some good reasons for studyingmemory and cognition in the wild Thomas K. Landauer; Part II. Cognitionin Adulthood and Late Life: Findings in Real-life Settings: 10.Introduction to Part II: What do we know about the aging of cognitiveabilities in everyday life? Leonard W. Poon; Part IIA. EverydayCognitive Abilities: 11. Memory for prose: perspectives on the readerJoellen T. Hartley; 12. Prose processing in adulthood: the text, thereader and the task Bonnie J. F. Meyer and G. Elizabeth Rice; 13.Speech comprehension and memory through adulthood: the roles of timeand strategy Elizabeth Lotz Stine, Arthur Wingfield and Leonard W.Poon; 14. The effects of aging on perceived and generated memoriesGillian Cohen and Dorothy Faulkner; 15. Aging and word retrieval:naturalistic, clinical and laboratory data Nancy L. Bowles, Loraine K.Obler and Leonard W. Poon; 16. Acquisition and utilization of spatialinformation by elderly adults: implications for day-to-day situationsKathleen C. Kirasic; 17. Inner-city decay? Age changes in structure andprocess in recall of familiar topographical information PatrickRabbitt; 18. The cognitive ecology of problem solving Alan A. Hartley;19. Everyday problem solving: methodological issues, research findingsand a model Nancy Wadsworth Denney; 20. Prospective/intentional memoryand aging: memory as adaptive action Jan D. Sinnott; Part IIB.Concomitant Influences: 21. Motivation and aging Lawrence C. Perlmuterand Richard A. Monty; 22. Questionnaire research on metamemory andaging: issues of structure and function Roger A. Dixon; 23. Theimportance of awareness in memory aging John C. Cavanaugh; 24. Age andexpertise: responding to Talland's challenge Neil Charness; 25.World-knowledge systems Cameron J. Camp; 26. Comments on aging memoryand its everyday operations Donald H. Kausler; Part III. CognitiveEnhancement and Aging: Clinical and Educational Applications: 27.Introduction to Part III: approaches to practical applications BarbaraA. Wilson and Leonard W. Poon; Part IIIA. Issues and Perspectives: 28.Varieties of memory compensation by older adults in episodic re