Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Object Perception
Structure and Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This collection of research on object perception focuses on holistic and featural properties of objects, the mechanisms that produce such properties, how people choose one type of property over another, and how such choices are improved during the course of child development. The contributions consider...
Indigenous Adolescent Development
Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development...
Unusual Productions in Phonology
Universals and Language-Specific Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades. More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and language-specific input frequencies. With entirely original...
Improving Statistical Reasoning
Theoretical Models and Practical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
This book focuses on how statistical reasoning works and on training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive capabilities to improve their statistical reasoning. Training programs that take into account findings from evolutionary psychology and instructional theory are shown to have substantially...
by Warren Thorngate, Robyn M. Dawes, Margaret Foddy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Merit-based tests and contests have become popular methods for allocating rewards – from trophies to contracts, jobs to grants, admissions to licenses. With origins in jurisprudence, methods of rewarding merit seem fairer than those rewarding political or social connections, bribery, aggression,...
Human Memory
Paradigms and Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The fact that cognitive psychology has become largely concerned with a handful of laboratory tasks has brought expressions of concern and suggestions about how to place the field on a more solid footing. The view expressed here, however, is that the classic cognitive paradigms have become fascinating...
Foreign Accent Syndromes
The stories people have to tell
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
What does it feel like to wake up one day speaking with a foreign accent from a country one has never visited?
Why does someone wake up doing this?
This book seeks to portray the broad and diverse experiences of individuals with a rare neurological speech disorder called Foreign Accent...
The Structure of Learning
From Sign Stimuli To Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Drawing together research and theory in ethology and psychology, this book offers a clear and provocative account of the ways in which living organisms learn. Throughout, the authors' focus is on the importance of operational definition.
In lively prose, describing experiments in enough depth...
Neuropsychology of Art
Neurological, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Fully updated, the second edition of Neuropsychology of Art offers a fascinating exploration of the brain regions and neuronal systems which support artistic creativity, talent and appreciation. This landmark book is the first to draw upon neurological, evolutionary, and cognitive perspectives, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Coping with spatial expressions in a plausible manner is a crucial problem in a number of research fields, specifically cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and linguistics. This volume contains a set of theoretical analyses as well as accounts of applications which deal with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of brief...
by George Mather
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Do you wonder how movies – sequences of static frames – appear to move, or why 3-D films look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner flights make you feel disoriented? The answers to these and other questions about the human senses can be found within...
Social Intelligence and Cognitive Assessments of Personality
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This volume presents a new conceptualization of personality and social cognition that addresses both traditional and new issues. Written for students of personality, experimental and consumer psychology and cognitive science.
Training Cognition
Optimizing Efficiency, Durability, and Generalizability
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Training is both a teaching and a learning experience, and just about everyone has had that experience. Training involves acquiring knowledge and skills. This newly acquired training information is meant to be applicable to specific activities, tasks, and jobs. In modern times, where jobs are increasingly...