Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience. Winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, this book was written by two leading experts in the field to be highly accessible to undergraduates...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation? Belief is one of the most commonly used, yet unexplained terms in neuroscience. Beliefs can be seen as forms of mental representations and one of the building blocks of our conscious thoughts.
This book provides...
Cognitive Modeling in Perception and Memory
A Festschrift for Richard M. Shiffrin
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The work of Richard M. Shiffrin has highly impacted the field of cognitive science, and current developments within perception and memory have been influenced by his ideas. In this volume, several key figures in the field will comment on these developments and put them in a wider perspective. Although...
Cognitive Aging
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As our society ages, the topic of cognitive aging is becoming increasingly important. This volume provides an accessible overview of how the cognitive system changes as a function of normal aging.
Building on the successful first edition, this volume provide an even more comprehensive coverage...
Young Children's Cognitive Development
Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are...
Buddhist Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This user-friendly guide to the basics of Buddhist psychology presents a roadmap specifically designed for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) practitioners. It explains central Buddhist concepts and how they can be applied to clinical work, and features numerous experiential exercises and meditations....
Psychology of Reading
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work...
The Psychology of Language
From Data to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Now in full colour, this fully revised edition of the best-selling textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This book brings together the latest research in this new and exciting area of visualization, looking at classifying and modelling cognitive biases, together with user studies which reveal their undesirable impact on human judgement, and demonstrating how visual analytic techniques can provide effective...
The Adapted Mind
Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact...
Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
The Treatment of Challenging and Complex Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Since the successful first edition of Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, there has been a proliferation of psychological research supporting the effectiveness of CBT for a range of disorders. Case formulation is the starting point for CBT treatment, and Case Formulation in Cognitive...
Unlocking Consciousness
Lessons from the Convergence of Computing and Cognitive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. 'What is intelligence?' might appear as a simple question, but many great minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking Consciousness attempts to examine this central...
Grounds for Cognition
How Goal-guided Behavior Shapes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Q: Why do organisms need cognition?
A: To get information about their environments.
Q: Why such information?
A: Because organisms need to guide their behaviors to goals.
Q: Why guidance?
A: Because it leads to goal satisfaction.
Q: Why goals?
Cognition...
by Gordon B. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Cognitive interviewing, based on the self-report methods of Ericsson and Simon, is a key form of qualitative research that has developed over the past thirty years. The primary objective of cognitive interviewing, also known as cognitive testing, is to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying...