Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Animal Learning and Cognition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new edition has been expanded to take account of the many exciting developments that have occurred over the last ten years.
The...
The Organization of Action
A New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A synthesis of classic and modern neurobehavioral literature dealing with the principles by which complex, purposive, and intelligent behavior is generated, this book features:
* papers by C.S. Sherrington, E. von Holst, D.M. Wilson, G. Fraenkel, H. Mittelstaedt, and P. Weiss
* clear...
Associative Illusions of Memory
False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (e.g., recalling words or pictures), methods such as the famed Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task have attracted considerable attention. These tasks...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to explore the interrelations among communication, social cognition and affect. The contributors, selected by the editors, were some of the best known in their fields and they significantly added to the knowledge of this interdisciplinary...
The Experience of Thinking
How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony’s truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences of thinking" occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing,...
Cognitive Perspectives on Children's Social and Behavioral Development
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 18
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Attitudes
Insights from the New Implicit Measures
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
This book tackles a subject that has captured the imagination of many researchers in the field: attitudes. Although the field has always recognized that people�s attitudes could be assessed in different ways, from direct self-reports to disguised observations of behavior, the past decade has shown several new approaches to attitude measurement. Des
Varieties of Memory and Consciousness
Essays in Honour of Endel Tulving
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
These collected essays from leading figures in cognitive psychology represent the latest research and thinking in the field. The volume is organized around four "Endelian" themes: encoding and retrieval processes in memory; the neuropsychology of memory; classificatory systems for memory; and consciousness, emotion, and memory.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Derived from a conference sponsored by the Heinz Werner Institute for Developmental Analysis at Clark University, these papers consider the role emotions play in ideal human development. Contributors from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and sociology discuss the place that "feelings,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made. Variations in the conditions under which language is acquired can be regarded as natural experiments, which would not be feasible or ethical under normal circumstances....
Sexual Images of the Self
the Psychology of Erotic Sensations and Illusions
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This volume documents how sexual practices and fictions infiltrate and are influenced by a person's feelings about the self and the body. Using paradigms derived from self and body image theory, Fisher combines research from the past several decades dealing with sexual behavior to test major theories...
Human Abilities
Their Nature and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume brings together many of the leading researchers on human intelligence and cognition to address issues including definition, measurement, and instructional design. Its publication is a result of the Inaugural Spearman Seminar recently held at the University of Plymouth -- a seminar that...
by Beth Alder
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
Central Topics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of...