Books list 90 from Psychology Press imprint

Inside Case-Based Reasoning

by Christopher K. Riesbeck, Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Introducing issues in dynamic memory and case-based reasoning, this comprehensive volume presents extended descriptions of four major programming efforts conducted at Yale during the past several years. Each descriptive chapter is followed by a companion chapter containing the micro program version...

Models of Action

Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

This volume presents an international group of researchers who model animal and human behavior--both simple and complex. The models presented focus on such subjects as the pattern of eating in meals and bouts, the energizing and shaping impact of reinforcers on behavior, transitive inferential reasoning,...

The Biological Foundations of Gesture

Motor and Semiotic Aspects

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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

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

EEO Law and Personnel Practices

by Laura L. Koppes, Stephen J. Vodanovich, Robert D. Athey
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010

The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving federal case law that focus on issues relating to the terms and conditions of employment. New to this t

Evaluating Systems of Care

The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. A Special Issue of children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

This issue consists of five articles profiling different aspects of the national evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Over the last eight years, this program provided grants to develop community-based systems of care for children...

Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program

by Patricia M. Smith, C. Barr Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature,...

An Introduction To the Logic of Psychological Measurement

by Joel Michell
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

This book declines to take for granted the widespread assumption that existing psychometric procedures provide scientific measurement. The currently fashionable concepts of measurement within psychology -- operationalism and representationalism -- are critically examined, and the classical view, that...

Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks

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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

The articles gathered in this volume represent examples of a unique approach to the study of mental phenomena: a blend of theory and experiment, informed not just by easily measurable laboratory data but also by human introspection. Subjects such as approach and avoidance, desire and fear, and novelty...

Multilevel Modeling

Methodological Advances, Issues, and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003

This book illustrates the current work of leading multilevel modeling (MLM) researchers from around the world. The book's goal is to critically examine the real problems that occur when trying to use MLMs in applied research, such as power, experimental design, and model violations. This presentation...

Brain Plasticity and Behavior

by Bryan Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

There are few books devoted to the topic of brain plasticity and behavior. Most previous works that cover topics related to brain plasticity do not include extensive discussions of behavior. The first to try to address the relationship between recovery from brain damage and changes in the brain that...

Attitude Strength

Antecedents and Consequences

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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Social psychologists have long recognized the possibility that attitudes might differ from one another in terms of their strength, but only recently had the profound implications of this view been explored. Yet because investigators in the area were pursuing interesting but independent programs of...

Shell Shock to PTSD

Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War

by Edgar Jones, Simon Wessely
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005

The application of psychiatry to war and terrorism is highly topical and a source of intense media interest. Shell Shock to PTSD explores the central issues involved in maintaining the mental health of the armed forces and treating those who succumb to the intense stress of combat. Drawing...

On Seeing Forms

by William R. Uttal
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

Originally published in 1988, this is the final volume in the set. The original intent of the tetralogy was to review neural explanations of high level perceptual and cognitive processes. However, at this point, it became clear that there were few neural explanations of perceptual topics – a situation...

Leadership Development

Paths To Self-insight and Professional Growth

by Manuel London
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001

Leadership Development explores how leaders gain and use self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined, continuous learners, and make the most of...