Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Causal Learning
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our capacities for planning, imagination and inference. During the last few years, there has been an interdisciplinary revolution...
Future Bright
A Transforming Vision of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two....
by Jesse J. Prinz
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
“A loud counterblast to the fashionable faith of our times: that human nature is driven by biology . . . urgent and persuasive.”—Sunday Times (London)
In this era of genome projects and brain scans, it is all too easy to overestimate the role of biology in human psychology. But in this...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Relational Frame Theory
A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. It challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations...
CFT Made Simple
A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For the first time ever, CFT Made Simple offers easy-to-apply tools to help clients develop self-compassion, learn mindfulness skills, and balance difficult emotions for greater treatment outcomes.
Created by world-renowned psychologist Paul Gilbert, compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely...
by Jerome Bruner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking...
by Arthur B. Markman
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions, in turn, influence the explanatory power of theories. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children learn...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Your Toolkit to Modify Mood, Overcome Obstructions and Improve Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. With guidance from two experts, you’ll recognise the behaviours and thoughts that hold you back, and will develop skills to think more positively, act more calmly and feel better about yourself....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, as a group they are far more diverse than hearing peers. Lack of full access to language, incidental learning, and social interactions as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities means that...
A Very Short Tour of the Mind
21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“Thoroughly enjoyable” essays from a cognitive neuroscientist, filled with surprising facts (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that the human mind enjoys....
Visual Perception
An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do?
Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are,...
by Alan Baddeley
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This Classic Edition of the best-selling textbook offers an in-depth overview of approaches to the study of memory. With empirical research from both the real world and the neuropsychological clinic, the book explains the fundamental workings of human memory in a clear and accessible style. This...