Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
New Directions in Health Psychology critically explores the psychological dimensions of health and well-being in the Indian cultural context.
Beginning with an analysis of the notion of health and well-being, the book goes on to explore the strategies and identify the possible interventions...
Excelling in Sport Psychology
Planning, Preparing, and Executing Applied Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Written for graduate students and early professionals who are conducting applied sport psychology work for the first time, Excelling in Sport Psychology is a guide for planning, preparing, and executing this work. Each chapter addresses a critical component of the internship experience, such as selecting...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This discipline has become more reflective in recent years. It has also become blatantly philosophical, which is itself cause for reflection. The philosophy of psychology has not been exactly a burgeoning field, and yet psychologists and philosophers of all persuasions are writing philosophical psychology....
The New Psychology of Language
Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists,...
Musical Imaginations
Multidisciplinary perspectives on creativity, performance and perception
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been difficult to subject to empirical enquiry. However, music psychology and some allied disciplines have now developed, both theoretically and methodologically,...
The Psychology of Gender and Health
Conceptual and Applied Global Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
The Psychology of Gender and Health: Conceptual and Applied Global Concerns examines the psychological aspects of the intersection between gender and health and the ways in which they relate to the health of individuals and populations. It demonstrates how gender should be strategically considered...
The New Psychology of Language
Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally...
Experimental Psychology Its Scope and Method: Volume V (Psychology Revivals)
Motivation, Emotion and Personality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in English in 1968, Joseph Nuttin contributes the first chapter, on Motivation. He discusses various aspects of the motivational process. Such as incentives, conflict, social motivation, and negative motivation, and describes the mechanism of the process. The second chapter, by Paul...
by K Warner Schaie, Sherry Willis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span.
The psychology of aging is important to many features...
by Graham Davey, Christopher Sterling, Andy Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The new edition of Complete Psychology is the definitive undergraduate textbook. It not only fits exactly with the very latest BPS curriculum and offers integrated web support for students and lecturers, but it also includes guidance on study skills, research methods, statistics and careers. Complete...
The sources and aim of human progress
A study in social psychology and social pathology
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Famous pioneer in many fields of psychology and psychiatry, Boris Sidis is known to have applied his knowledge of psychology by fathering the child prodigy William James Sidis, who at age 11 became the youngest person to enroll at Harvard University.
Two decades after publishing his theory of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, 6e provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the psychological aspects of aging. The 22 chapters are organized into four divisions: Concepts, Theories, and Methods in the Psychology of Aging; Biological and Social Influences on Aging;...
Adaptation and Well-Being
Meeting the Challenges of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"According to Leo Tolstoy’s famous statement "all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Knud Larsen in his book on human happines proves the opposite. Summarizing the classical and recent research in successful human adaptation, adjustment and well-being...