Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
by Aimée M. Surprenant, Ian Neath
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and frequently cited law of memory, and perhaps only one generally accepted principle. The purpose of this monograph is...
The General Factor of Intelligence
How General Is It?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological,...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer
Gently Turning Towards
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer presents an eight-week course for MBCT which has been tried and tested over ten years of clinical use, and is targeted specifically for people with cancer.
There is growing evidence of mindfulness as a successful and cost-effective intervention for...
Blending Play Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Evidence-Based and Other Effective Treatments and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In today's managed-care environment, therapeutic techniques must be proven to be effective to be reimbursable. This comprehensive volume is written by leaders in the field and collects classic and emerging evidence-based and cognitive behavioral therapy treatments therapists can use when working with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin
An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical analysis...
Reclaiming Life after Trauma
Healing PTSD with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Integrative tools for healing the traumatized mind and body
• Combines cutting-edge Western cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and ancient Eastern wisdom to heal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Teaches Kundalini yoga practices specifically designed to reset parts of the brain...
Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning
Reading Literary Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and our desires and dreams. It differs from science in its aims and methods, but Babuts shows in other respects that literature has much common ground with science. Both aim for...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Rewire the Thought Process and Flush out Negative Thoughts, Depression, and Anxiety, Without Resorting to Harmful Meds
Collective Wellness Revolution, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Have you wondered if it is possible to stop intense feelings of worry, anxiety or depression without resorting to medication?
Most depression related medication can have a series of harmful side effects that sometimes leave patients in an even worse state than before.
Cognitive behavioral...
The Literary Mind
The Origins of Thought and Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example,...
Sensorimotor Life
An enactive proposal
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and events - may feel dissatisfied with the answers contemporary science...
Judgment and Decision Making
Neo-brunswikian and Process-tracing Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Research on human judgment and decision making has been strongly guided by a normative/descriptive approach, according to which human decision making is compared to the normative models provided by decision theory, statistics, and the probability calculus. A common empirical finding has been that...
Mind-Society
From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering,...