Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books

The Intelligent Ear

On the Nature of Sound Perception

by Reinier Plomp
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001

Plomp's Aspects of Tone Sensation--published 25 years ago--dealt with the psychophysics of simple and complex tones. Since that time, auditory perception as a field of study has undergone a radical metamorphosis. Technical and methodological innovations, as well as a considerable increase in attention...
by H. Werner, B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Learning and Teaching Mathematics

An International Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematics provides an exciting account of...
by R. M. Granovskaya, I. J. Bereznaya, Alla N. Grigorieva
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Parenting and the Child's World

Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-emotional Development

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001

Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. Surprisingly, most of what we know about the role of feelings in social thinking and behavior has been discovered only during the last two decades....

Expertise and Technology

Cognition & Human-computer Cooperation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Technological development has changed the nature of industrial production so that it is no longer a question of humans working with a machine, but rather that a joint human machine system is performing the task. This development, which started in the 1940s, has become even more pronounced with the...

Social Influence

The Ontario Symposium, Volume 5

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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Relative Deprivation and Social Comparison

The Ontario Symposium, Volume 4

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Motivated Social Perception

The Ontario Symposium, Volume 9

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers,...

Culture, Technology, and Development

In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind, Culture, and Activity

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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins--a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts the "cart before the horse"--the test before the theory. Another approach is to use evolutionary theory. This criterion has been suggested by a number of individuals...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

It sometimes seems that it is difficult to pick up a current newspaper or a magazine without it containing a story about some behavioral characteristic for which it has been found that a gene is responsible. Even aspects of behavior that one would feel certain are environmentally controlled are now...
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