Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason...

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999258903Author Jess MarionFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Remind PublishingPublisher Remind PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how...

Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human...

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when we generate a new theory or a scientific hypothesis? In this book, Anna Abraham...

'This is a much-needed book - experienced clinicians writing intelligently about one of the most fraught and complex clinical problems facing psychotherapy today. We have patients who are suffering - suffering because of memories of experiences with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809657Author Yael SchonbrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Brain fog is real-and it can cloud your thinking, sap your creativity and motivation, and take the joy right out of life. This book offers quick, proven-effective solutions to help you cut through the haze and think clearly.Do you ever feel spaced out or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039307Author Simona GinsburgFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 40mm

Explores the process by which people make decisions, explaining how the difference between good and bad decision making is directly related to the details on which people focus, and offers advice on how to improve decision making skills.Book...

In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience,...

WINNER OF THE GOLD PRIZE FOR RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT AT THE 2016 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS. Can meditation and mindfulness exercise make us sharper, smarter, healthier, happier? In Siddhartha's Brain, James Kingsland reveals that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031448Author Catherine JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

'THE MOTHERHOOD COMPLEX does for mothers in particular what INVISIBLE WOMEN did for women as a whole: exposes the myriad ways in which the system is stacked against us, while celebrating the strengths and successes we achieve in spite of it all' Leah...

Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and...

Written in Kathleen M. Galotti's signature engaging style, this text is a dynamic examination of cognitive development from infancy through adolescence. Updated and reorganized throughout, the Second Edition weaves together a variety of theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684113170Author Abraham H MaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.com

Case Studies are familiar as problem-solving devices in business and in education, as well as having a traditional role in the teaching of medicine and as the psychoanalytic research. In experimental psychology, however, case studies have only recently...

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a...

Individual Differences and Personality provides a student-friendly introduction to both classic and cutting-edge research into personality, mood, motivation and intelligence, and their applications in psychology and in fields such as health, education...

This groundbreaking handbook of human strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers in the Values in Action Classification Project, which has undertaken a systematic classification and measurement of universal...

Critical and Creative Thinking: A Guide for Teachers reveals ways to develop a capacity to think both critically and creatively in practical and productive ways. Explains why critical and creative thinking complement each other with clear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717137893Author Tony HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NewleafPublisher GillWeight(grams) 243gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 128mm * 18mm

Most people are surprised to learn that seeing has not yet been explained by science. Incredibly, scientists cannot even explain why some surfaces appear to be black while others appear to be white. The physical difference between a surface that appears...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358329619Author Carol TavrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692265451Author Elise BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Temerity Publishing and EntertainmentPublisher Temerity Publishing and...

Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of...

A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and...

What is good acting? How does one create believable characters? How can an actor understand a character if they do not understand themselves?In The Science of Acting, Sam Kogan uses his theories on the relationship between neuroscience, psychology and...

Silence the Voice of Self Doubt"Banish Your Inner Critic provides knowledge, insight, tools and practice for getting unstuck and expressing full creative potential." Rebecca Stockley, Co-Founder of BATS Improv in San Francisco CAAre you ready to boost...

A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, concisely, and often cinematically. The book succeeds in providing an accessible yet substantive look at memory science and offering glimpses of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001196Author Robert GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 165mm...

Back in print after 20 years, this text from the earliest days of psychedelia chronicles the experiences on 16 acid trips taken before LSD was illegal. The trip guides or "high priests" included Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Meltzner, Huston Smith and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845942Author Raymond TallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Although investigated for over 100 years, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how speed of information processing is affected in various clinical populations. Processing speed has a major impact on higher level cognitive abilities and is...

This book will introduce you to studies in developmental psychology that changed the way we think about the discipline today. Each chapter provides details of the original work and explains their theoretical and empirical impact, before discussing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262633086Author Thomas MetzingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such...