Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Quantum Theoretic Machines
What is thought from the point of view of Physics?
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2000
Making Sense of Inner Sense
'Terra cognita' is terra incognita. It is difficult to find someone not taken abackand fascinated by the incomprehensible but indisputable fact: there are material systems which are aware of themselves. Consciousness is self-cognizing code. During homo sapiens's relentness...
Hume's Problem Solved
The Optimality of Meta-Induction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.
Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem....
by Willem A. Wagenaar
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Why does a large proportion of the population engage in some form of gambling, although they know they are most likely to lose, and that the gambling industry makes huge profits? Do gamblers simply accept their losses as fate, or do they believe that they will be able to overcome the negative odds...
Human Memory
A Constructivist View
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
While memory research has recently focused on brain images and neurological underpinnings of transmitters, Human Memory: A Constructivist View assesses how our individual identity affects what we remember, why and how. This book brings memory back to the constructivist questions of how all the experiences...
by David A. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This innovative textbook is the first to integrate learning and memory, behaviour, and cognition. It focuses on fascinating human research in both memory and learning (while also bringing in important animal studies) and brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in the subject. Students...
by Stephen Ryan, Zoltan Dornyei
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of individuals’ dynamic interactions with diverse contexts. This revisit of the bestselling The Psychology of the Language...
The Dilemmas of Intimacy
Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Grounded in the cognitive-behavioral approach, The Dilemmas of Intimacy focuses exclusively on understanding, assessing, and treating common problems with intimacy. Intimacy offers both risks and rewards, which create three dilemmas that every couple must negotiate: joy vs. protection from hurt, I...
by Yochai Ataria
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book explores the long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma—particularly complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)—from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives. For example, C-PTSD can result in impairments at the body-schema level. In order to survive, trauma victims may conduct...
by Tia A. Hoffer, Joy Lynn E. Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
By providing empirical data and multidisciplinary considerations, the book increases awareness of child sex offender suicide among the various entities which come into contact with this population of offenders. This book attempts to bring awareness of this potentially high risk...
Creative Approaches to CBT
Art Activities for Every Stage of the CBT Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Expanding the therapist's toolkit, this book provides creative activities and exercises for every stage of the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) process, from initial diagnosis through to relapse prevention.
The exercises are an integrated part of the CBT work and assist in the process of...
Experienced Wholeness
Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive Processing
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally.
How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups...
Neurotechnology and Direct Brain Communication
New insights and responsibilities concerning speechless but communicative subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Neurotechnology and Direct Brain Communication focuses on recent neuroscientific investigations of infant brains and of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), both of which are at the forefront of contemporary neuroscience. The prospective use of neurotechnology to access mental states in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This anthology translates eighteen papers by Italian philosopher and experimental psychologist Paolo Bozzi (1930-2003), bringing his distinctive and influential ideas to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The papers cover a range of methodological and experimental questions concerning...
by Louise Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This wide-ranging survey of the state of the art in clinical pragmatics includes an examination of pragmatic disorders in previously neglected populations such as juvenile offenders, children and adults with emotional and behavioural disorders, and adults with non-Alzheimer dementias. This book makes...