Adult Development and Aging: Myths and Emerging Realities

by Richard Schulz, Robert B. Ewen

This book separates fact from fiction about adult development by contrasting existing myths with the most recent empirical data. The authors present—with a relevant, readable approach—the most current research literature available on traditional psychological topics, such as sensation and perception, memory and learning, and intelligence and creativity.

516 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1988

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every so often, I find myself picking up a book that has no real direct purpose in my reading queue but that I eventually read through to completion and this was such a work. I know several students found this book through research and introduction to gerontology studies, but for me, it was a book that happened upon my desk amid some former faculty books that I received and, while I normally research education, I found myself pulled into the interest in this topic as it covered education as an element of aging.
The thing that makes this book readable to a casual reader is the focus it has on looking at established myths of age and either dispelling those myths or providing the scientific origin and social background. In this was, this book becomes more readable - it looks at the science, social, educational, and historical views of aging and helps to give them form and function in society. Capably illustrated for those who many learn more visually, I was not brought to the book by a class requirement, but rather I found myself pulled in by the ability the author has to more fully engage the topic as one of not just social or scientific study, but as a fully human study. If you want to see age examined across disciplines in an introductory manner, you could do far worse than this book.