Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
by Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong empirical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Mathematical Psychology and Psychophysiology promotes an understanding of the mind and its neural substrates by applying interdisciplinary approaches to issues concerning behavior and the brain. The contributions present model from many disciplines that share common, conceptual, functional, or mechanistic...
by Raymond S. Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of...
Compensating for Psychological Deficits and Declines
Managing Losses and Promoting Gains
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The concept of compensation in psychology refers to processes through which a gap or mismatch between current accessible skills and environmental demands is reduced or closed. These gaps can be principally the result of losses, such as those associated with aging or interpersonal role changes; injuries,...
Working Memory
The Connected Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Working memory – the conscious processing of information – is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience – from our childhood, to our old age, from our evolutionary...
Pavlovian Second-Order Conditioning (Psychology Revivals)
Studies in Associative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this volume explores some of the dramatic and exciting changes that had taken place in the field of conditioning in the 15 years prior to publication. The usefulness of a particular learning procedure, second-order conditioning, is explored in three aspects of the learning...
Pioneers in Peace Psychology
Doris K. Miller: A Special Issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology. Many theories of personality are set on an interpersonal stage and many social phenomena are played out differently as the cast of characters change. At times the study of persons and situations...
Psychology of Blacks
Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.
This text highlights the limitations of traditional psychological theories and approaches when applied to people of African descent....
Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics
A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with...
Studies in Perception and Action XIII
Eighteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA). ICPA provides a forum for researchers and academics who share a common interest in ecological psychology to come together, present...
Pain
Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
This invaluable resource presents a state-of-the-art account of the psychology of pain from leading researchers. It features contributions from clinical, social, and biopsychological perspectives, the latest theories of pain, as well as basic processes and applied issues. The book opens with an introduction...
by Felix E. Goodson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integration of the facts and principles of cognitive psychology. It includes contributions of information processing and reaction, and emphasizes historical continuity....
Developing Cognitive Competence
New Approaches To Process Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Although computational modeling is now a widespread technique in cognitive science and in psychology, relatively little work in developmental psychology has used this technique. The approach is not entirely new, as a small group of researchers has attempted to create computational accounts of cognitive...