Aging and Creativity
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Kenneth J. Gilhooly, Mary L.M. Gilhooly
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 4 0 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 6 1 5 - 4
Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or out… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAging 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
Clinicians, researchers, and students in gerontology, developmental psychology, cognitive psych, sociology, biology, and other related health care professions tasked with caring for the aging population
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Creativity: introduction
- Introduction
- What is creativity?
- Assessing novelty
- Creativity: big- and little-, mini-, and pro-
- Problems: routine, insight, and creative
- Summary and conclusions
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Age and aging
- Introduction
- Chronological aging
- Biological aging
- Psychological aging
- Social aging
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 3. Creative competence and age
- Introduction
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 4. Real world studies of creative productivity with age
- Introduction
- Adolphe Quetelet
- George Miller Beard
- Harvey C. Lehman: age and achievement
- Wayne Dennis studies of productivity and age (1966)
- Lindauer on aging and creativity in art
- Galenson: conceptual young geniuses and experimental old masters?
- The issue of “Late Style”
- Swansong effect
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 5. Protective factors and risk factors for later life creativity
- Introduction
- Protective factors
- Motivation and mood
- Risk factors
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 6. Creative thinking: restructuring and insight
- Introduction
- Real life cases of restructuring
- Comparing insight versus noninsight problems
- Representational Change Theory
- Barriers to restructuring
- Insight and restructuring: conclusions
- Creative problem solving
- Laboratory studies of incubation
- Sleep incubation
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 7. Noncognitive factors in creative thinking: personality, psychopathology, and mood
- Introduction
- Personality
- Psychopathology (mental illness) and creativity
- Mood and creativity
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 8. Theories and models of creative processes
- Introduction
- Strategic search approach to creative processes
- Associative process approaches
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 9. Aging effects on cognitive and noncognitive factors in creativity
- Introduction
- Intelligence
- Working memory and aging
- Explanations of age-related changes in fluid ability measures
- Crystallized intelligence
- Perception and aging
- Age effects on practical/real-world problems (or “Wisdom”)
- Noncognitive changes with age: personality, mood, and sleep
- Abnormal cognitive aging
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 10. Integrative discussion
- Introduction
- Key definitions and concepts
- Creative production and age
- Links between aging and creativity
- Creative processes: a working framework and age effects
- Mitigation of age effects
- Final take home messages
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 284
- No. of pages (eBook): 284
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128164013
- eBook ISBN: 9780128166154
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Kenneth J. Gilhooly
Dr Gilhooly’s research is in the area of human cognitive psychology, especially thinking and problem solving and effects of age on cognition and well-being. His emphasis recently has been on collaborative work at Brunel University London on aging, dementia, and on decision-making among professionals dealing with elder financial abuse.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor in Gerontology, Brunel University, London, UKMG
Mary L.M. Gilhooly
Dr. Gilhooly’s research focusses on financial elder abuse; posterior cortical atrophy and Alzheimer’s Disease; radiation exposure, exposure worry, and cognitive functioning; and lay concepts of dementia.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Gerontology and Health Studies, Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel University, London, UKRead Aging and Creativity on ScienceDirect