Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Beyond Multiple Choice
Evaluating Alternatives To Traditional Testing for Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume provides in-depth coverage of a key piece of today's human resource selection technology--the viability of alternatives to paper and pencil multiple-choice selection tests. Each chapter of this edited volume presents an intensive examination of a key "alternative to multiple-choice...
Current Trends in Connectionism
Proceedings of the 1995 Swedish Conference on Connectionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In order to build "intelligent" machines, many researchers have turned to the only naturally occurring intelligent system: the brain. For quite a while now, both the function and architecture of the brain have served as inspiration to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists, neurobiologists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The result of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, the papers in this volume exemplify the tremendous breadth and depth of research underway in the field of neural networks. Although the slant of the summer school has always leaned toward cognitive science and artificial intelligence, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants. But what vowels are, how they differ from one another, how they vary among speakers, and how they are subject to disorder, are questions that require a closer examination.
This Handbook presents a...
Children's Understanding
The Development of Mental Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Spatial Cognition
The Structure and Development of Mental Representations of Spatial Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Changing Families, Changing Responsibilities
Family Obligations Following Divorce and Remarriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
This book explores the topic of family obligations following changes in family structure caused by divorce and remarriage. Family obligations are commonly defined as the rights and duties that accompany family roles. They have been described as the "glue" that connects generations, as well...
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Evolutions in Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This is a collection of essays on issues related to the evolutionary design and the practical future of intelligent tutoring systems. Following in the tradition of Foundations of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Lessons Learned, this volume examines some of the visions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing through the middle 1990s, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) sponsored a comprehensive research and development program to evaluate and enhance the Army's personnel selection and classification procedures. This...
Caring for Children
Challenge To America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Childcare is one of the most debated issues today. This volume provides a comprehensive and current review of childcare research and public policy issues. Chapters are contributed by leaders from such fields as developmental research and early childhood education as well as by public policy officials....
Rethinking Neural Networks
Quantum Fields and Biological Data
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The result of the first Appalachian Conference on neurodynamics, this volume focuses on processing in biological neural networks. How do brain processes become organized during decision making? That is, what are the neural antecedents that determine which course of action is to be pursued? Half of...
Parallel Models of Associative Memory
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This update of the 1981 classic on neural networks includes new commentaries by the authors that show how the original ideas are related to subsequent developments. As researchers continue to uncover ways of applying the complex information processing abilities of neural networks, they give these...
Sensation and Judgment
Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Psychophysical theory exists in two distinct forms -- one ascribes the explanation of phenomena and empirical laws to sensory processes. Context effects arising through the use of particular methods are an unwanted nuisance whose influence must be eliminated so that one isolates the "true"...