Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Eyewitness Memory
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on the menu of investigators of memory in more...
Making Decisions That Matter
How People Face Important Life Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2005
Researchers studying decision making have traditionally studied the phenomenon in the laboratory, with hypothetical decisions that may or may not involve the decision maker's values, passions, or areas of expertise. The assumption is that the findings of these well-controlled laboratory studies will...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research. This volume provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of major topics in social motivation. All contributors are renowned...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This Handbook illustrates how gender, ethnicity, age, and even sexual orientation and understanding influence the health practices and risk factors for health problems in diverse groups of people. Contributions from leading researchers in psychology, health, and epidemiology provide an interdisciplinary...
Piaget Or the Advance of Knowledge
An Overview and Glossary
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This unusual volume presents an overview of Jean Piaget's work in psychology--from his earliest writings to posthumous publications. It also contains a glossary of the essential explanatory concepts found in this work. The focus is on Piaget's psychological studies and on the underlying epistemological...
How Children Learn to Read
Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on assessment and treatment of reading disability (dyslexia) has become a magnet for the application of new techniques and technologies...
Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 3)
Approaches to Human Learning and Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Originally published in 1976, Volume 3 of this Handbook deals primarily with conditions of acquisition, retention and forgetting, and the manner in which acquired information and motivation combine to determine performance. The organization of this volume can be understood in terms of four principal...
Asian American Psychology
Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
This is the first textbook written to welcome those who are new to Asian American psychology. Concepts and theories come to life by relating the material to everyday experiences and by including activities, discussion questions, exercises, clinical case studies, and internet resources. Contributions from the leading experts and emerging scholars an
Hypothetical Thinking
Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a...
Implicit Learning and Consciousness
An Empirical, Philosophical and Computational Consensus in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Can you learn without knowing it? This controversial and much debated question forms the basis of this collection of essays as the authors discuss whether the measurable changes in behaviour that result from learning can ever remain entirely unconscious. Three issues central to the topic of implicit...
by Marcus Taft
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Over the last twenty years a major area of cognitive psychology has developed centred upon research into the issues of how visually presented words are processed so that they can be read and understood. The focus has been on how words are stored in the mental lexicon and retrieved during the reading...
Consciousness
The Science of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The study of consciousness is recognized as one of the biggest remaining challenges to the scientific community. This book provides a fascinating introduction to the new science that promises to illuminate our understanding of the subject.
Consciousness covers all the main approaches to the...
by D.F. Fraser-Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Originally published in 1928, the preface reads: "It is almost impossible to distinguish between what is ‘elementary’ and what is ‘advanced’ in regard to the nervous system. The constitution and functions of that system are so little matters of common knowledge that it would be safe to...
Attention, Perception and Memory
An Integrated Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another. Using close examination of experiments, studies of patients...