Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book is a newly revised version of the highly influential text, Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders: Theory, Practice and Research, based on an earlier volume by Bernard and Ellis.

From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better.

The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds.

Now in its fourth edition, this highly popular text is the definitive introduction to consciousness, exploring the key theories and evidence in consciousness studies ranging from neuroscience and psychology to quantum theories and philosophy.

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

For the previous 6 years before publication, Office of Naval Research (ONR) had been conducting a thematically oriented contract research program aimed, in large part, at developing the kind of broad theoretical framework necessary for a workable process interpretation of aptitude, learning, and performance.

Das Buch gibt einen fundierten Überblick über die wichtigen Fragen im Kontext von Sprache und Denken und liefert Antworten beispielsweise zu den Themen: Wie funktioniert Sprache?

The 21st Century Cold War is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pattern of Russian interference in the internal affairs of other nations, suggesting that what in the Cold War was a simple conflict of East vs.

Daydreaming, our ability to give 'to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour.

This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders.

What makes some experiences more memorable than others?

This monograph is an extension of the earlier monographs dealing with the application of the new modified involuted manifold model.

This is a collection of chapters by some of the most influential memory researchers.

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world.

Our world and bodies are becoming increasingly polluted with chemicals capable of interfering with our hormones and thus, possibly, our present and future neural and mental health.

This book addresses an intriguing question: are our decisions rational?

This volume provides an overview of research from the learning sciences into understanding, enhancing, and measuring "e;deep comprehension"e; from a psychological, educational, and psychometric perspective.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need toconfidently administer, score, and interpret the WMS -IV Complete coverage of administration, scoring,interpretation, and reporting Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls Conveniently formatted for rapid reference The most recent revision of one of the most popular memory assessment instruments, the Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition (WMS -IV) is a widely used measure of memory functioning, which is particularly useful in the assessment of individuals with dementia, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse problems, among others.

For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification.

This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, on the topics that provide its title -- choice, decision, and measurement.

This Handbook brings together the world''s foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development.

Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice investigates the veracity of memories of sexual misconduct and the factors that may influence accurate recall, and fundamentally assesses whether psychological science can help the criminal justice system in determining which accusations are likely to be accurate, and which are not.

While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology.

This volume offers an in-depth corpus linguistic analysis of the word "e;empathy"e; aiming to foster unique insights into a word widely found across contemporary discourses and into methodological innovations for analyzing large corpora.

This book focuses on novel design and systems engineering approaches, including theories and best practices, for promoting a better integration of people and engineering systems.

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Vision and memory are two of the most intensively studied topics in psychology and neuroscience.

Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor.

One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "e;milestones"e; which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages.

Across several intellectual disciplines there exists a tension between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups.

Mysteries of the Social Brain describes the scientific underpinnings of human behavior and values.

Beginning with his doctoral dissertation in 1950 which introduced the study of event perception and the application of vector analysis to perception, Gunnar Johansson has been a seminal figure in the field of perception.

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

The advances in neuroimaging technologies have led to substantial progress in understanding the neural mechanisms of cognitive functions.

Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible.

It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering.

This book explores that which is at the very heart of coaching: the coach-coachee relationship.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of cognitive enhancement, the use of different substances and actions (e.

It is now widely recognized that research on human health requires more than a focus on human biology and disease entities.

In Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory a group of distinguished contributors examine how perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience.

This handbook is the only single volume to capture the current range of neuroscience approaches to human emotion.