Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Cognitive Learning and Memory in Children
Progress in Cognitive Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in developmental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like...
Cognitive Science
An Introduction to the Science of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Cognitive Science combines the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science into a unified narrative in an all-encompassing introduction to the field. This text presents cognitive science as a discipline in its own right, and teaches students to apply the techniques and theories of the cognitive...
The Psychology of Graphic Images
Seeing, Drawing, Communicating
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet an incredibly wide range of communication needs. But how exactly do they do their job so well?
Avoiding the kinds of aesthetic rankings of different...
by Matthew Coxon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
"Clear explanations and illustrations clearly define concepts. The text also contains a range of useful tasks to support student engagement and recognition of possible application. The critical thinking activities are also well organised to support students to develop analytical approaches."
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Mastery - How to Master Your Brain & Your Emotions to Overcome Depression, Anxiety and Phobias
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Series Book #2
There are many people who suffer from depression, anxiety and phobias. These can have severe negative impacts on their lives and can make them unable to fully enjoy everything that they should be able to enjoy, but the good news is that there are...
A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems
The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2005
The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A
Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion of
relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. In
this highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preserving
inference,...
by Jeremy Safran, Zindel V. Segal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Cognitive therapy, with its clear-cut measurable techniques, has been a welcome innovation in recent years. However, the very specificity that lends itself so well to research and training has minimized the role of the therapeutic relationship, making it difficult for therapists to respond flexibly...
Mindreaders
The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Theory of mind, or "mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparative psychologists and more recently by neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. This book...
Applications of Cognitive Psychology
Problem Solving, Education, and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Published in the year 1986, Applications of Cognitive Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.
Working Memory
The Connected Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Working memory – the conscious processing of information – is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience – from our childhood, to our old age, from our evolutionary...
Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Could CRT provide the first structured method of alleviating cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia?
Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia describes the background and development of this new psychological therapy and demonstrates how it provides the first structured help...
by Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there...
Psychology of Bilingualism
The Cognitive and Emotional World of Bilinguals
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The aim of this volume is to integrate the current literature about the psychological dimensions of bilingualism: that is, to analyze psychological, subjective, and internal perspectives on bilingualism. What is the internal world of bilinguals like? How do they perceive the world and how do they...
by Richard P. Cooper With Contributi, Peter G. Yule, John Fox
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing requirements,...