Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book examines the remarkable feats of mesmerists, mediums and mind-readers, and provides a new psychology of extraordinary beliefs.

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations.

This book examines the remarkable feats of mesmerists, mediums and mind-readers, and provides a new psychology of extraordinary beliefs.

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

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations.

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

Creative criminals commit highly effective, novel crimes.

Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

An unusual study of human perceiving from the perspective of an ecological psychology that explicitly incorporates a phenomenology of consciousness.

Creative criminals commit highly effective, novel crimes.

Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

An unusual study of human perceiving from the perspective of an ecological psychology that explicitly incorporates a phenomenology of consciousness.

Comprehensive and definitive review of the field of creativity.

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

Comprehensive and definitive review of the field of creativity.

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

The first systematic treatment of fatigue for sixty years, putting forward a new theory of its origins and functions.

Introduces principles drawn from quantum theory to present a new framework for modeling human cognition and decision.

Motor Behavior: Control, Learning and Development explores the realm of Motor Behavior, a field intricately examining human action and movement across a lifetime - from their initial acquisition to refinement and evolution.

This book has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion for more than forty years.

This thoughtfully updated revision of a classic text sheds new light on the potential sociological and biological differences that result in deep, seemingly unbridgeable political divisions.

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts.

The research described in Student Learning and Academic Understanding had its origins in the pioneering work of Ausubel, Bruner, and McKeachie and followed two complementary lines of development.

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Como entrenar tu cerebro para el pensamiento inteligente: Aprenda a dominar el aprendizaje, la cognicion y el aumento del coeficiente intelectualJoseph PinkletonLe gustara ser capaz de pensar inteligentemente con la mente clara?

"e;Stylish, witty and insightful"e; -The Wall Street Journal"e;Makes us look at ourselves and the human mind in a series of fascinating ways"e; - New Scientist"e;House is a pleasure to read.

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

This Element focuses on children''s event memory and what it tells us about when children can be reliable eyewitnesses.

This Element focuses on children''s event memory and what it tells us about when children can be reliable eyewitnesses.

A flaw in Freud''s Interpretation of Dreams prompts reevaluation of his view of the work as his seminal achievement.

A flaw in Freud''s Interpretation of Dreams prompts reevaluation of his view of the work as his seminal achievement.

This original interdisciplinary study argues that understanding how narrative works in literature is crucial to understanding moral thought.

This original interdisciplinary study argues that understanding how narrative works in literature is crucial to understanding moral thought.

The first textbook on how problem-solving really works, explaining how abstract thinking leads to physical action directed towards a goal.

The first textbook on how problem-solving really works, explaining how abstract thinking leads to physical action directed towards a goal.

How we age depends on how we live.

This book describes the promise and pitfalls of using neuroscience to better understand creators and the audiences for their creations.

This book describes the promise and pitfalls of using neuroscience to better understand creators and the audiences for their creations.

How we age depends on how we live.

Autobiographical memory and narrative define self as coherent and continuous and are at the interface of individual and culture.

The first comprehensive coursebook on the psychology of wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the field.

The first comprehensive coursebook on the psychology of wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the field.

Autobiographical memory and narrative define self as coherent and continuous and are at the interface of individual and culture.

This account of children''s learning to ascribe understanding to themselves and others may help to explain children''s theory of mind.