Experimental Psychology category: 380 books
by Allison B. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings from psychology, biology, neuroscience, engineering, business, ecology,...
Closing the Gap
The Scientific Writings of David N. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
This book is a collection of Lee�s most important works, placed in a historical setting and contextualized through the commentaries of other leading researchers in the field. The contributors were selected on the basis of their standing in the field. Some have been directly involved in collaborations with Lee, while others have participated in publ
Majority and Minority Influence
Societal Meaning and Cognitive Elaboration
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Majority and minority influence research examines how groups influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours of individuals, groups and society as a whole. This volume collects recent work by an international group of scholars, representing a variety of different theoretical approaches to majority...
by William R. Uttal
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness, brightness, and transparency of surfaces, both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is transformed...
Sleeplessness
Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease.
It presents...
Experiments in Personality: Volume 1 (Psychology Revivals)
Psychogenetics and psychopharmacology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Originally published in 1960, the two volumes of Experiments in Personality report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been developing from the late 1940s...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1982, Social Attitudes and Psychophysical Measurement is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.
The Neuropsychopathology of Schizophrenia
Molecules, Brain Systems, Motivation, and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
One of the first major theoretical reviews of schizophrenia since the publication of the 5th edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-5, this volume is a landmark in the history of schizophrenia research. It assembles recent groundbreaking developments in research on schizophrenia...
Memory, Attention, and Aging
Selected Works of Fergus I. M. Craik
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Memory, Attention, and Aging is a collection of some of the most influential journal articles previously published by Fergus Craik and his collaborators, with new introductory material unifying the research of this noted cognitive psychologist. The reprinted articles are grouped into six sections...
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...
Studies in Perception and Action V
Tenth international Conference on Perception and Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
This is the fifth volume in an evolving series known collectively as "Studies in Perception and Action." It features papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Perception and Action held in Edinburgh, Scotland in August of 1999. This series provides a unique insight into the...
Memory Mechanisms
A Tribute To G.v. Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Presenting the work of researchers who are at the forefront of the study of memory mechanisms, this volume addresses a wide range of topics including: physiological and biophysical studies of synaptic plasticity, neural models of information storage and recall, functional and structural considerations...
by C. J. Brainerd, V. F. Reyna
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions have been reached after a decade or so of intensive research, the majority of them are not well known outside the immediate...