Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 5)
Human Information Processing
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Originally published in 1978 Volume 5 of this Handbook reflects a single theoretical orientation, that characterized by the term human information processing in the literature at the time, but which ranges over a very broad spectrum of cognitive activities. The first two chapters give some overall...
Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing
Advancing Theory, Knowledge, Research Methods, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Translation of cognitive representations into written language is one of the most important processes in writing. This volume provides a long-awaited updated overview of the field.
The contributors discuss each of the commonly used research methods for studying translation; theorize about the...
Cognitive Dissonance
50 Years of a Classic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
'Dr. Joel Cooper has been at the very forefront of research on dissonance theory for decades now. In this book, he provides a brilliant and engagingly-written review of the 50-year history of dissonance research and a masterful account of the ensuing developments in the theory. The book will be an...
Interpreting Visual Art
A Survey of Cognitive Research About Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Coping with spatial expressions in a plausible manner is a crucial problem in a number of research fields, specifically cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and linguistics. This volume contains a set of theoretical analyses as well as accounts of applications which deal with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
A negative effect of the ageing population is that more individuals are experiencing cognitive decline and some form of neurodegenerative disease. With the number of people experiencing dementia likely to double in the next 20 years, this change in society presents one of greatest challenges facing...
Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
Central Topics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science, an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of...
The Development of Perception, Cognition and Language
A Theoretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time. The theme which underlies the discussion is that scientific knowledge of the cognitive characteristics of other people starts from the cognitive instruments...
Autobiographical Memory and the Self
Relationship and Implications for Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Autobiographical memory shapes our understanding of ourselves, guides our behaviour, and helps us to develop and maintain relationships with others. The ways in which we interpret and narrate our memories have important implications for our psychological well-being, and can sometimes contribute to...
Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man
Volume I Experimental Animal Psychology and Ethology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These volumes represent the proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute on the topic of "Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man" held at La-Baume-les-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France, in June-July 1985. The motivation underlying this Institute stemmed from the recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
Frederic C. Bartlett is well known for his contributions to cognitive psychology, especially in the field of memory. This collection, by internationally renowned scholars including: Alan Baddeley, Richard Gregory, William Brewer, Steen Larsen, Michael Cole, Jennifer Cole and Mary Douglas, brings together...
by Morton A. Heller, Edouard Gentaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness.
The...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Definitive Guide to Understanding Your Brain, Depression, Anxiety and How to Overcome It
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Series Book #1
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental illnesses in the world. Often they go hand in hand with each other, and unfortunately for thousands of people these serious mental health concerns go untreated. Perhaps you or a loved one suffers...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Problem Drinking
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This book serves as a concise and practical guide on the application of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to problem drinking. Divided into five chapters it provides:
a detailed account of the cognitive and behavioural processes involved in the development and maintenance of problem drinking
in-depth...