The cries of infants and children are familiar to essentially all adults, and we all have our own common sense notions of the meanings of various cries at each age level.
This book was developed in response to a need in behavioral teratology for a comprehen- sive set of reviews of the field's many topics brought together in a single source.
For almost a century now, since Freud described the basic motivations and Pavlov the basic mechanisms of human behavior, we have had a reasonable concept of the forces that drive us.
This book is intended as both an introduction to the state-of-the-art in visual languages, as well as an exposition of the frontiers of research in advanced visual languages.
As in past volumes, the current volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology strives for a broad range of timely topics on the study and treatment of children, adolescents, and families.
From Memories to Mental Illness explores a ground-breaking hypothesis based on the premise that memories are stored as electrically associated entities reflecting the natural organization of those experiences from which they rose.
This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "e;Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy,"e; at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
This volume marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of William Book's 1908 The Psychology of Skill, in which typewriting received its first large-scale treatment from a psychological standpoint.
One of the more promising recent developments in the study of social cognition has been the cross-pollination of ideas from the fields of developmental and social psychology.
Research on cognitive aspects of mathematical problem solving has made great progress in recent years, but the relationship of affective factors to problem-solving performance has been a neglected research area.
During the past two decades, a renewed interest in children's cognitive devel- opment has stimulated numerous research activities that have been summarized in hundreds of books.
Autobiographical Memory and the Validity of Retrospective Reports presents the collaborative efforts of cognitive psychologists and research methodologists in the area of autobiographical memory.
This is a collection of what I feel are some of the most important social/cognitive psychology experiments, studies, demonstrations, biases, and systematic reviews, presented in an entertaining way while adhering to academic standards.
"Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased" traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings.
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