Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Advances in Environmental Psychology
Volume 3: Energy Conservation, Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Clinical Aphasiology
Future Directions: A Festschrift for Chris Code
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
This book presents a collection of cutting edge work from leading researchers and clinicians around the world on a range of topics within Clinical Aphasiology. However, more than this, the volume is also a tribute to Chris Code, one of the foremost scholars in the field. Professor Code has made a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Due largely to developments made in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology during the past two decades, expertise has become an important subject for scholarly investigations. The Nature of Expertise displays the variety of domains and human activities to which the study of expertise has...
by David Premack
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying...
by Glynis M. Breakwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strategies for doing this, or to examine the nature and impact of the threatening experiences themselves....
Studies in Perception and Action IX
Fourteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The edited book series Studies in Perception and Action contains a collection of research presented at the International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). The Studies series has appeared in conjunction with the biennial ICPA since 1991. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory,...
by Peter Herriot
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory. It suggests that the view of memory as a sequence of stores through which information passes is mistaken. Instead, the author emphasizes the coding process of memory by which the nominal stimulus,...
Individual Differences in Arithmetic
Implications for Psychology, Neuroscience and Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Standards in numeracy are a constant concern to educational policy-makers. However, why are differences in arithmetical performance so marked? In Individual Differences in Arithmetic, Ann Dowker seeks to provide a better understanding of why these differences in ability exist, encouraging a more informed...
Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition
Essays in honour of Jean-Luc Nespoulous
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book brings together experts from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to explore how a multidisciplinary approach can impact on research into the neurocognition of language. International contributors present cutting-edge research from cognitive and developmental psychology,...
Ecological Approaches to Cognition
Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
In the context of an Emory Symposium on Cognition honoring the enormous contributions to cognitive psychology of Ulric Neisser, this book brings together ecological approaches to various aspects of cognition and its development. Well-known former students and colleagues of Neisser articulate their...
The Concept of Development
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 15
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1982, the Concept of Development is a valuable contribution to the feild of Developmental Psychology.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In the late 1960s, after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy, a number of investigators – some anthropologists, some psychologists, some psychiatrists and paediatricians, and even a few ethologists – developed the conviction that certain contributions to the...
Visual Word Recognition Volume 2
Meaning and Context, Individuals and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 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 second volume examines how research on word...
by Barbel Inhelder, Hermine Sinclair, Magali Bovet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child.
In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years’...