Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research.
This volume is based on the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Slow Potential Changes in the Human Brain that was held at II Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy over the period 13-16th May, 1990.
In this text, the authors review the last twenty-five years of progress in research and theory on language and communication in the psychopathological context.
The Different Faces of Motherhood began during a conversation between the two editors, developmental psychologists who have spent our professional careers working with infants and very young children.
The past decade has witnessed a considerable upsurge of clinical and research interest in the problems of developmentally and physically the fields of psychology, disabled persons.
Challenging current notions in self-esteem literature, this volume offers new insights into efficacy, agency, and self-esteem as well as the influence of these constructs on psychological well-being.
Drawing on the tradition of John Dewey and William James, the authors offer a concise overview of psychological theories and their applications to education, while managing to maintain the distinction between the two disciplines.
his book is the result of more than 30 years of experience and hard, T resourceful work by Eric Schopler and his team-first as lonely pioneers, now as leaders whose influence extends as far as Kuwait, India, and Japan.
The following are the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Perception held in Pavia, Italy, on September 27-30, 1993, under the auspices of four institutions: the Group of Cybernetic and Biophysics (GNCB)s of the National Research Council (CNR), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI * IA), the Italian Association of Psychology (AlP), and the Italian Chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
If the truth were told, this volume and its direct antecedents must rank among the most ambitious, if not simply pretentious, endeavors imag- inable, at least in the social sciences.
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author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.
Residential and inpatient treatment of children and adolescents is a field that is still in the process of defining itself and of demonstrating its effectiveness.
Whatever your reasons, kind reader, for reading these words,-what- ever your premises about forewords, whatever the epistemic motivation with which you approach them-Iet me urge you to turn immediately to Kruglanski's first chapter and skim it.
The fifth volume of Imagery emanates from the matrix of presentations offered after the conventions of the American Association for Mental Imagery for the years 1987 and 1988.
In a review written in 1979, I noted that there was a paucity of research examining the effects of maternal employment on the infant and young child and also that longitudinal studies of the effects of maternal em- ployment were needed (Hoffman, 1979).
A Cross-National Study of Adolescent Self-Image Adolescence is not, as has been previously assumed, a developmental stage that was defined after the industrial revolution.
Social development over one's lifetime is a complex area that has received consider- able attention in the psychological, social-psychological, and sociological literature over the years.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce this important and fascinating book on the internal dilemmas youngsters face in school, which often cause them to stop learning.
In its narrowest sense, "e;mentally disordered offender"e; refers to the approximately twenty thousand persons per year in the United States who are institutionalized as not guilty by reason of insanity, incompetent to stand trial, and mentally disordered sex offenders, as well as those prisoners transferred to mental hospitals.
The purpose of this book is to provide readers with sufficient knowledge regard- ing social skills assessment and training with children so that they can imple- ment and evaluate social skills programs on their own.
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "e;edition"e; of some of the material that is found here.
The second edition of the esteemed atlas provides an in-depth exploration of craniofacial anatomy, enhanced by images of real cadavers that vividly depict the details of human anatomy.
Partant du contraste troublant entre la preponderance clinique des obsessions et la quasi-disparition de leur diagnostic, l'auteur constate que le fonctionnement obsessionnel induit une impasse epistemologique : en s'assimilant a un fonctionnement scientifique, le fonctionnement obsessionnel empeche sa propre reconnaissance scientifique tout en instituant des fonctionnements pathologiques dans le champ de la recherche.
Professor Rahn takes the approach to the analysis of Western art music developed recently by theorists such as Benjamin Boretz and extends it to address non-Western forms.
