Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an increasing number of studies have either implicitly...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults
An Emotion Regulation Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults: An Emotion Regulation Approach provides a unique focus on therapeutic practice with adolescents and young adults, covering everything from psychological theories of adolescence to the treatment of common emotional difficulties.
Beginning...
Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks
Readings in Cognitive Neuropsychology and Connectionist Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this exciting and innovative...
Working Memories
Postmen, Divers and the Cognitive Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Technological developments during the Second World War led to an approach that linked ideas from computer science to neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, known today as the Cognitive Revolution. Leaving behind traditional behaviourist approaches popular at the time, psychology began...
CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami
Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBT’s understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized...
Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition
Essays in honour of Jean-Luc Nespoulous
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book brings together experts from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to explore how a multidisciplinary approach can impact on research into the neurocognition of language. International contributors present cutting-edge research from cognitive and developmental psychology,...
Ecological Approaches to Cognition
Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
In the context of an Emory Symposium on Cognition honoring the enormous contributions to cognitive psychology of Ulric Neisser, this book brings together ecological approaches to various aspects of cognition and its development. Well-known former students and colleagues of Neisser articulate their...
Coaching for Rational Living
Theory, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This eminently useful guide presents an up-to-date framework for Rational-Emotive Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching (RE-CBC), from basic concepts, techniques, and applications to evidence of how and why this versatile method works. It details how RE-CBC synthesizes the rational thinking, cognitive disputing,...
The Psychology of Reading
An Interdisciplinary Approach (2nd Edn)
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The need to know why as well as how children and youth respond as they do to reading instruction has guided the selection of this book’s content. The second edition of this title, originally published in 1990, has retained and elaborated upon the three major themes previously presented: that reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cognitive neuropsychological research studies of people with cognitive deficits have typically been directed either at investigating methods of intervention, or at furthering our understanding of normal and impaired cognition.
This book reports on research that combines these goals, using studies...
Cognitive Enhancement
Pharmacologic, Environmental and Genetic Factors
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Cognitive Enhancement: Pharmacologic, Environmental and Genetic Factors addresses the gap that exists in research on the topic, gathering multidisciplinary knowledge and tools that help the reader understand the basics of cognitive enhancement. It also provides assistance in designing procedures and...
by Pamela M. Greenwood, Raja Parasuraman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Two noted researchers explain scientific evidence that shows why certain experiential and lifestyle factors may promote and maintain cognitive vitality in older adults.
Although our physical abilities clearly decline as we age, cognitive decline in healthy old age is neither universal nor inevitable....
Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology
Innovative Research Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
Social Justice, Multicultural Counseling, and Practice
Beyond a Conventional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This second edition book provides an update to multicultural psychology and counseling research findings, and the DSM-5 in sociopolitical and cultural contexts. It links social psychology with current cognitive science research on implicit learning, ethnocentrism (attribution error, in-group favoritism,...