Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books

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Beyond the Brain

How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

by Louise Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different...
Cover of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
by Michel J. Dugas, Melisa Robichaud
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

By focusing on the cognitive-behavioral model and treatment options, Dugas and Robichaud present a detailed analysis of the etiology, assessment, and treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: From Science to Practice provides...
Cover of Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Consciousness seems to be an enigmatic phenomenon: it is difficult to imagine how our perceptions of the world and our inner thoughts, sensations and feelings could be related to the immensely complicated biological organ we call the brain. This volume presents the thoughts of some of the leading...
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Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 1)

Introduction to Concepts and Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

From the Foreword: "Is it possible at present to identify a core cluster of theoretical ideas, concepts, and methods with which everyone working in the area of learning and cognition needs to be familiar? Would it be possible to make explicit the relationships that we feel do or must exist among...
Cover of From Animals to Robots and Back: Reflections on Hard Problems in the Study of Cognition
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Cognitive Science is a discipline that brings together research in natural and artificial systems and this is clearly reflected in the diverse contributions to From Animals to Robots and Back. In tribute to Aaron Sloman and his pioneering work in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence,...
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Anxiety and Cognition

A Unified Theory

by Michael Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

It is argued in this book that there are three major approaches to anxiety. First, there is anxiety as an emotional state. Second, there is trait anxiety as a dimension of personality. Third, there is anxiety as a set of anxiety disorders. What is attempted is to produce a unified theory of anxiety...
Cover of The Science of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

The Science of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy describes the scientific approach of CBT, reviews the efficacy and validity of the CBT model, and exemplifies important differences and commonalities of CBT approaches. The overarching principle of CBT interventions is that cognitions causally influence...
Cover of General Principles and Empirically Supported Techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009

Proven and effective, cognitive-behavior therapy is the most widely taught psychotherapeutic technique. General Principles and Empirically Supported Techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy provides students with a complete introduction to CBT. It includes over 60 chapters on individual therapies...
Cover of Interactions Among Aptitudes, Strategies, and knowledge in Cognitive Performance
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

During the past two decades, a renewed interest in children's cognitive devel­ opment has stimulated numerous research activities that have been summarized in hundreds of books. In our view, the field of memory development provides a particularly nice example of the progress that has been made so...
Cover of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals
by Robert D. Friedberg, Angela A. Gorman, Laura Hollar Wilt
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals is an essential resource for clinical child psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and mental health professionals. Since 2001, psychiatry residency programs have required resident competency...
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Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 3)

Approaches to Human Learning and Motivation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Originally published in 1976, Volume 3 of this Handbook deals primarily with conditions of acquisition, retention and forgetting, and the manner in which acquired information and motivation combine to determine performance. The organization of this volume can be understood in terms of four principal...
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Hypothetical Thinking

Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement

by Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007

Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a...
Cover of Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless...
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Attention, Perception and Memory

An Integrated Introduction

by Elizabeth Styles
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another. Using close examination of experiments, studies of patients...
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