Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

This book is a newly revised version of the highly influential text, Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders: Theory, Practice and Research, based on an earlier volume by Bernard and Ellis. The revised edition incorporates...

This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or...

This book demonstrates and discusses the hypothesis that, within the theory of multiple intelligences, graphic intelligence can be isolated and defined as the ability to use graphic skills to solve problems and create products through the integration and...

This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Říp) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates. First, it contributes to the exploration of the mutual...

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity...

This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.Current science has not agreed on an understanding of what exactly the aim of science actually is, how to understand scientific knowledge, and...

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of how the human face drives many of our most important social behaviors. People perceive the identities, genders, and attractiveness of others from the many different faces they see every day. There has been...

This thought-provoking monograph makes a multidisciplinary case for bilingualism as a possible enhancer of executive function, particularly cognitive control. Its central focus is the cognitive operations of the bilingual brain in processing two...

This eye-opening text brings together research from behavioral science, neuroscience, and other fields to make a cogent case for emotions acting as a practical framework for living our lives. A dozen basic emotions are analyzed in terms of what causes...

Think critically. Improve your decision-making. Control your thoughts. Sort out irrational fears. Cluttered, neurotic thoughts invade our mind more often than we realize and we end up living our life in anxiety, triggered by thoughts...

"Neurocosmic Brain" is the ultimate brain model. It will heal, empower and stabilise your mind by growing new brain cells to enhance your neuroplasticity. Your epigenetics would express more healthy genes rather than lethal genes by cumulative effects of...

Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing of...

What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way...

Have you ever been curious as to how your conscience works? Is there a difference between what you are told and "the little voice inside of your head?" Do you want to know where to go, what to know, and how to show who you are to those you cherish, and...

A volume in International Advances in Self ResearchSeries Editors Rhonda G. Craven, University of Western Sydney; Herbert Marsh,University of Western Sydney; and Dennis M. McInerney, Hong Kong Institute of EducationThe concept of the Self has a long...

This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation-a...

This book explores the long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma-particularly complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)-from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives. For example, C-PTSD can result in impairments at the body-schema level...

This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital...

This volume presents cutting-edge research and theory on the social psychology of stigma. This book was originally published as a special issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

This classic work explores the nature and measurement of human intelligence. The author proposes a groundbreaking theory of intelligence that has had a profound impact on the fields of psychology and education. A must-read for anyone interested in...

In this thought-provoking book, Andrew Park explores the complex relationship between blindness and perception. Drawing on his own experience of losing his sight, he examines the ways in which blindness can heighten other senses and open up new ways of...

Written by Aleksandr Ivanovich Galich, one of Russia's most renowned thinkers and writers, this book offers a compelling exploration of the nature of human consciousness and self-knowledge. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophical...

Ce livre traite de la mnémotechnique, explorant les techniques utilisées pour améliorer la mémoire. L'auteur décrit les principes de la mnémotechnique et examine les différentes techniques utilisées pour améliorer la mémoire. Cette œuvre est une lecture...

In diesem Werk widmet sich der Psychologe Goswin K. Uphues der Erforschung der Wahrnehmung und Empfindung. Dabei untersucht er insbesondere die Prozesse der Sinneswahrnehmung und ihre Beziehung zur realen Welt.This work has been selected by scholars as...

Dieses Buch bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Wahrnehmung des Raums aus der Perspektive des menschlichen Gesichtssinns. Siegbert Silberstein untersucht die tiefgründigen Beziehungen zwischen visuellem Eindruck und mentalem Raum und liefert...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This accessible guide offers a concise introduction to the science behind worry in children, summarising research from across psychology to explore the role of worry in a range of circumstances, from everyday worries to those that can seriously impact...

This is an introduction to cognitive science intended for use as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate-level courses. In it, the author presents the major experiments and theoretical arguments in cognitive psychology in some detail. Where...

This book provides both young and senior scientists with a comparative view of current theoretical models of text production. Models are clearly situated in their historical context, scrutinized in their further evolution with...

Consciousness has become a major topic of scientific interest, and dozens of books have been written in recent years to explain it, yet it still remains a mystery. Science and the Riddle of Consciousness explains why...

The Evolution of Human Cleverness presents a unique introduction to the way human cognitive abilities have evolved. The book comprises a series of mini-essays on distinct topics in which technical terms are simplified, considering how humans made the...

This book tells the story of Peter Cathcart Wason, offering unique insights into the life of the pioneering research psychologist credited for establishing a whole new field of science: the psychological study of reasoning. And this was just one of the...

Preface PART 1: SYNCHRONIC NETWORKING The Role of Cognition Universal Trends Culture-Specific Conceptualisation Conceptual Equivalence and Translation PART 2: THE DIACHRONIC DIMENSION Cultural Patterns of the Past Metaphor and Semantic Networks Metaphor...

The current economic crisis is causing large impact on the behavior of financial markets and institutions. Crisis, Risk and Stability in Modern Banking presents an indepth insight into key topics related to the behavior of financial institutions in the...

The history of Western research and academic theory provides many examples of how the sensory perception of symbolic forms during focused inquiry guided scientists in their search for novel solutions. Well-known cases are the research of Copernicus,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Allgemeines, Note: 1,0, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend von der Fragestellung, ob und unter welchen Umständen implizites Lernen während einer Vollnarkose stattfinden...

Sociology and Education is a sound introduction to sociology of education. The book examines the respective logics behind the contemporary sociological approaches to education, their assumptions and their limits. It clarifies the links between psychology...

In this provocative and informative book, Drs Rachael Sharman and Michael C. Nagel take the reader on a journey where nature and nurture intersect.Becoming Autistic reflects the concerns of the authors and numerous neuroscientists around the world...

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