Cognition and cognitive psychology

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

In the 10 years prior to publication the quantity of research on eye movements as they pertain to psychological processes had been increasing at a rapid rate.

This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition.

Education and cognitive psychology are natural companions-they both are focused on how people think and learn.

The field of research on the paranormal has changed enormously in the last 20 years.

Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.

The Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary Studies.

Principles of Training provides insight into the different variables presented by training tasks.

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as 2 months old.

This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance; and the promotion of change through application.

Seit Anfang der 1990er-Jahre haben sich die technischen Möglichkeiten enorm verbessert, das menschliche Gehirn zu untersuchen und dessen Strukturen und Aktivitäten zu messen.

Metacognition is a complex construct which is fundamental to learning.

This volume honors the work of Arie W.

The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce.

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world.

With the reinassance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-empowered technologies, such as robots, we are all asking ourselves the question: What role will these new technologies play in our lives and in our society?

This book presents an overview of different frameworks for understanding perceptual organization, and a state-of-the-art summary of the domain.

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.

Given two events, both of which are well remembered, can we specify which event occurred first?

The concept behind this book is to take a holistic view of food texture, starting with the determination of food texture, its perception in the mouth, and its measurement by both sensory and instrumental methods, and to examine the relation between them.

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.

Within the basic and clinical biomedical research community, there is increasing recognition that differences between males and females across the lifespan affect an individual's health, his/her development of disease, signs and symptoms of pathophysiology, and response to therapy.

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience.

This book introduces the concept of ''critical feeling'', which combines insights from different disciplines to address personal and societal issues.

Reinforcement and Behavior brings together research findings and views of a number of investigators on the principles of learning and reinforcement.

This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child.

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

Research relevant to the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles.

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

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.

Originally published in 1992, this is a wide-ranging text concerned with the principles and practice of neuropsychological assessment in adults.

'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.

How we age depends on how we live.

This accessible yet scholarly book focuses on the study of the psychology of lying and misrepresentation, exploring the analysis of the cognitive and neural mechanisms that allow the construction of a false response, both consciously and as a consequence of a brain injury.

Autobiographical memory shapes our understanding of ourselves, guides our behaviour, and helps us to develop and maintain relationships with others.

The question arises whether logic was given to us by God or whether it is the result of human evolution.

Based on ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or "e;ghost hunters"e;: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena-in a scientific, secular and rational fashion-many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal.

This book highlights an innovative approach for extracting terminological cores from subject domain-bounded collections of professional texts.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence.

The Baddeley and Hitch (1974) Working Memory model holds a central place in experimental psychology and continues to be extremely successful in guiding and stimulating research in applied and theoretical domains.

This handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean.

The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies.

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few.

Originally published in 1962, the problems of cognition dealt with in this book include learning, perception, thinking, memory and linguistic behaviour.

Two experimental procedures prompted the empirical development of psychophysical models: those that measure response frequency, often referred to as response probability; and those that measure response time, sometimes referred to as reaction time.

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences.