Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
When Children Refuse School
A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Many children and teenagers refuse to attend school or have anxiety-related difficulties remaining in classes for an entire day. School refusal behavior can contribute to a child's academic, social, and psychological problems, impact a child's chances for future educational, financial, and personal...
The Neuron and the Mind
Microneuronal Theory and Practice in Cognitive Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book, a companion to William R. Uttal’s earlier work on macrotheories theories of mind-brain relationships, reviews another set of theories—those based on microneuronal measurements. Microneural theories maintain the integrity of individual neurons either in isolation or as participants in...
by William R. Uttal
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The crux of the debate between proponents of behavioral psychology and cognitive psychology focuses on the issue of accessibility. Cognitivists believe that mental mechanisms and processes are accessible, and that their inner workings can be inferred from experimental observations of behavior. Behaviorists,...
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind
Implications for Typical and Atypical Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Over the last fifteen years, developmentalists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, educators and clinicians have considered the acquisition of a theory of mind - the capacity to predict and explain behavior on the basis of internal, subjective mental states - to be one of the crucial cognitive achievements...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Although investigated for over 100 years, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how speed of information processing is affected in various clinical populations. Processing speed has a major impact on higher level cognitive abilities and is extremely vulnerable to neurological insult and...
Causal Learning
Advances in Research and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditions to complex learning and problem solving. This guest-edited special volume is devoted to current research and discussion...
Associative Illusions of Memory
False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (e.g., recalling words or pictures), methods such as the famed Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task have attracted considerable attention. These tasks...
by Jessica Lindblom
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emphasizing...
The Experience of Thinking
How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony’s truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences of thinking" occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Baddeley and Hitch (1974) Working Memory model holds a central place in experimental psychology and continues to be extremely successful in guiding and stimulating research in applied and theoretical domains. Yet the model now faces challenges from conflicting data and competing theories. In this...
Tip-of-the-tongue States
Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, déjà vu, and visual illusions, TOTs dazzle us with their subjective strength, yet, at the same time, puzzle us with our frustrating inability to retrieve the desired word. This book discusses...
Working Memory
Loss and reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of information in view of its on-going processing. Lying at the centre of cognition, it has become a key concept in psychological science. The book presents a critical review and synthesis of the working memory literature,...
by Michael W. Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This is a title in the modular "Principles in Psychology Series", designed for A-level and other introductory courses, aiming to provide students embarking on psychology courses with the necessary background and context. One aspect of this is to consider contemporary psychology in the light...
Artificial Believers
The Ascription of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the...