Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Development of Mental Representation
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
There is a general and extensive literature in the development of representational thought and symbolic processes because of its centrality in human evolution. However, the umbrella of science and its method does not necessarily lead to a coherent conceptual model, or agreements among scholars. These...
Uncommon Understanding
Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension in Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic. This book is unique in integrating research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we...
by A. Paivio
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A History of the Brain
From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience.
This...
Social Comprehension and Judgment
The Role of Situation Models, Narratives, and Implicit Theories
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Written by one of the foremost authorities in social cognition, Social Comprehension and Judgment examines how people process information encountered in their everyday lives. In the book, Dr. Wyer proposes a new theory about the way in which information acquired in everyday life is comprehended and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in mental capacity and struggling to define self, behaviors are also being learned whose function is to integrate self into a social network, which often means...
by Bernard Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Weiner introduces -- and offers his own motivation for producing - - this most impressive work with the following:
There are two distinct approaches to the study of motivation. One stratagem is a product of academic, experimental procedures, while the second is an outgrowth of clinical, non-experimental...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
How do people develop in their important relationships? How do two people come together to form a new, close relationship? How do relationships affect or determine who we are and who we become?
These questions should be central to the study of mind and development, but most researchers neglect...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on-line processes) rather than later when memory processes begin playing a dominant role (memory-based processes). Utilizing the methods and concepts of...
Stories, Scripts, and Scenes
Aspects of Schema Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 6)
Linguistic Functions in Cognitive Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Originally published in 1978, Volume 6 concludes the survey of research and theory on learning and cognitive processes that was envisaged when the plan for this Handbook was sketched.
The primary orientation in the planning the Handbook was to concentrate on research and models aimed toward...
by Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the problem of stereotyping and hypothesis testing....
Bilingualism and Language Disability (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
Assessment and Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Society is becoming increasingly multi-lingual and this presents monolingual professionals, particularly those in special education and speech pathology, with severe problems. Is the language delay in a child from a bilingual environment a result of this background or is there a specific speech problem?...
The World in Your Head
A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind.
Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the...