Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition
Doing and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child’s acquisition of phonology is seen as...
Handbook of Child Language Disorders
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements. When language acquisition fails to occur as expected, the impact can be far-reaching, affecting all aspects of the child’s life and the child’s family. Thus, research into the nature, causes, and remediation of children’s...
by John R. Anderson, Christian J. Lebiere
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to create a theory of human cognition that met the twin goals of precision and complexity. Up until then the standard for precision had...
by Martin Conway
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book provides a state-of-the-art review and critical evaluation of research into 'flashbulb' memories. The opening chapters explore the 'encoding' view of flashbulb memory formation and critically appraise a number of lines of research that have opposed this view. It is concluded that this research...
Basic Motivation and Human Behaviour
Control, Affiliation and Self-expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do. The chapters examine the origins of a given action rather than their superficial appearance, which can often be misleading. Kovac integrates the existing knowledge of the field of motivation into a greater theoretical...
Intentional Forgetting
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Research on intentional forgetting has been conducted in various forms and under various names for at least 30 years, but until now no effort has been made to present these different perspectives in one place. Comprising both review chapters and new empirical studies, this book brings together the...
Deep Comprehension
Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Understanding, Enhancing, and Measuring Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This volume provides an overview of research from the learning sciences into understanding, enhancing, and measuring "deep comprehension" from a psychological, educational, and psychometric perspective. It describes the characteristics of deep comprehension, what techniques may be used to...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Contemporary Issues in Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is now recognized to be a serious and chronic illness affecting more than 2% of the population. While the last decade of the twentieth century witnessed many advances on both the pharmacological and the behavioral fronts, fewer than 50% of cases benefitted significantly...
Complex Information Processing
The Impact of Herbert A. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Here, several leading experts in the area of cognitive science summarize their current research programs, tracing Herbert A. Simon's influence on their own work -- and on the field of information processing at large. Topics covered include problem- solving, imagery, reading, writing, memory, expertise,...
Thinking Off Your Feet
How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.
Entertaining Beliefs
Zen Humean Skepticism for Homo Fideo
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Zen Humean Skepticism for Homo Fideo (Believing Man). This is the ultimate holistic self-help guide. It combines the best that Zen, David Hume, Psycho-Cybernetics, Milton Erickson, and the Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP) that evolved from all these, have to offer. This guide benefits from all the...
integrating Marker Passing and Problem Solving
A Spreading Activation Approach To Improved Choice in Planning
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A recent area of interest in the Artificial Intelligence community has been the application of massively parallel algorithms to enhance the choice mechanism in traditional AI problems. This volume provides a detailed description of how marker-passing -- a parallel, non-deductive, spreading activation...
Autobiographical Memory
Remembering What and Remembering When
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Providing an unusual perspective on self and social memory different from the norm in social cognitive research, this volume describes the results of the authors' diary research now in progress for more than 15 years. It investigates the topic of autobiographical memory through longitudinal studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This first-of-its-kind volume describes the cognitive and educational characteristics of people with autism. Leading experts in the field contribute papers to this book, explaining intervention techniques and strategies. Parents, researchers, professionals, and clinicians interested in educating people with autism will appreciate this volume.