Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Psychophysiology
Human Behavior & Physiological Response
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This highly readable and comprehensive overview of psychophysiology provides information regarding the anatomy and physiology of various body systems, methods of recording their activity, and ways in which these measures relate to human behavior. Biofeedback applications are contained in a separate...
Thought and Knowledge
An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the thinking skills they need to succeed in today's world. This new edition retains...
Psychology and Music
The Understanding of Melody and Rhythm
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book deals with the complex cognitive processes involved in understanding two "horizontal" aspects of music perception, melody and rhythm, both separately and together. Focusing on the tonal framework for pitch material in melodies, the first section provides evidence that mere exposure...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience...
by Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1991, this book represents the first wide-ranging review of young people’s understanding of the social world and the functioning of society. Taking a social cognitive view of adolescence, it focuses on the processes by which young people learn to understand other people’s thoughts,...
From Sign to Symbol
Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure...
Visual Word Recognition Volume 1
Models and Methods, Orthography and Phonology
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Word recognition is the component of reading which involves the identification of individual words. Together the two volumes of Visual Word Recognition offer a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research from leading figures in the field.
This first volume outlines established theory,...
Thinking and Reasoning
An Introduction to the Psychology of Reason, Judgment and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The area of psychological research reviewed in this book is one that is not only increasing in popularity in college curricula, but is also making an ever larger impact on the world outside the classroom. Drawing upon research originally cited in Ken Manktelow’s highly successful publication Reasoning...
Simulation Theory
A psychological and philosophical consideration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Theory of Mind (ToM) is the term used for our ability to predict and explain the behaviour of ourselves and others. Accounts of this theory have so far fallen into two competing types: Simulation Theory and ‘Theory Theory’. In contrast with Theory Theory, Simulation Theory argues that we predict...
by Edouard Machery
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts. But our empirical knowledge about concepts has yet to...
Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making
Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive...
by Frank H. George
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Originally published in 1962, the problems of cognition dealt with in this book include learning, perception, thinking, memory and linguistic behaviour.
It is not a textbook in the ordinary sense, since it presents a particular approach to the subject through experimental psychology, and also,...
Living in an Asymmetrical World
How writing direction affects thought and action
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
There has recently been a renewed interest in the role of spatial dimensions in social cognition, and how vertical and horizontal trajectories are used to represent social concepts such as power, agency, aggression, and dominance. Most of this work surrounds the idea that abstract concepts are intrinsically...
Behavior Management
Traditional and Expanded Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Behavior Management: Traditional and Expanded Approaches serves as a reference guide on the implementation of basic and more advanced behavior management strategies. It covers the principles and application of basic learning theories as well as those that integrate cognitions and emotions in treatment...