Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Focusing on disorders, Bate unravels the mysteries and intricacies of facial processing from a new perspective, covering cognitive, developmental and clinical issues. Written in an engaging style and encompassing a wealth of detail, this is a must-read...

The only textbook to frame cognitive psychology in the context of our everyday lives. Our lives are governed by cognitive processes, whether we are searching for a face in a crowd, driving to work, or learning a second language. Cognition in the Real...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581448Author Keith J. HolyoakFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 476g

This book reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The authors reveal the importance of tacit knowledge - what we have learned from our own experience, through action. Although it has been...

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports,...

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a fascinating history of our...

From William James to Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to B.F. Skinner, scholars (and parents!) have wondered how children move from the blooming, buzzing confusion of infancy, through the tumult of childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. Does development...

Recent developments in the field of timing and time perception have not simply multiplied the number of relevant questions regarding psychological time, but they have also helped to provide more answers and open many fascinating avenues of thought...

In his brilliant and tragically brief career, Kenneth Craik anticipated certain ideas which since his death in 1945 have found wide acceptance. As one of the first to realise that machines share with the brain certain principles of functioning, Craik was...

An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself. With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of...

Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This inherited condition gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses', and so for those who experience it, everyday activities like reading or...

We are all aging, yet most adults say they don't feel all that old. Our age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After the age of 40, most people say they feel younger than their age, some lie about their age, and many attempt to hide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328505934Author David DestenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Eamon Dolan/Mariner BooksPublisher Eamon Dolan/Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 181g

"Machines who think-how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence-it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno-visionaries, proclaiming dominion. It's so simple...

Science writer David DiSalvo distills the latest research on how our brains work into easy-to-understand lessons that will give average readers insights into their habitual behavior. This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is...

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought and has been at the heart of psychology and philosophy for millennia. This book provides a radical and controversial reappraisal of conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647434274Author Peter HollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing - vision is after all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a dynamic process during which the eyes continually sample the environment...

The field of autobiographical memory has made dramatic advances since the first collection of papers in the area was published in 1986. Now, over 25 years on, this book reviews and integrates the many theories, perspectives, and approaches that have...

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground...

Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another sensory modality. For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a colour. This volume brings together what is...

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the...

Using Psychodynamic Thinking to Enhance CBT in Clients with Psychosis presents a comprehensive method for linking clients' symptoms to their personal development and life problems.Using concrete examples and extensive case descriptions that often span...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826122162Author Albert EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co IncWeight(grams)...

Understanding how individuals learn is central to personalizing learning. In this practical guide to learning styles, Barbara Prashnig explains how to implement personalized learning in real and varied contexts: what to do and what to avoid, and how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979374Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This book proposes a new science of self-control based on the principles of behavioral psychology and economics. Claiming that insight and self-knowledge are insufficient for controlling one's behavior, Howard Rachlin argues that the only way to achieve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319154097Author Richard A. AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515430797Author Leon FestingerFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389648096Author Yatish YadavFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications LimitedDimensions(mm) 230mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973112092Author Rao Konduru (Dr)Format PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Prime Publishing CompanyPublisher Prime Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 91g

What makes an expert? What strategies do they use? If you're an expert in one domain, are you more likely to become an expert in a second? In examining questions like these, Professor Fernand Gobet provides a comprehensive overview of the field of...

While many textbooks explain the techniques of CBT, few fully explore the issues surrounding their application in real-life practice. This unique book comes to the rescue of anyone struggling with the challenges of practising CBT, whether you are a...

This text, a collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a cognitive psychologist, offers a cognitive account of depression.About the AuthorBarnard, Philip; Teasdale, JohnReviews'In reflecting on this book, I realised that I know of no comparable...

The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and...

This accessibly written and pedagogically rich text delivers the most comprehensive examination of its subject, carefully drawing on the most up-to-date research and covering a breadth of the central topics including communication, language acquisition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062199294Author Majid FotuhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

In this landmark volume, Walter Kintsch presents a theory of human text comprehension that he has refined and developed over the past 20 years. Characterizing the comprehension process as one of constraint satisfaction, this comprehensive theory is...

Philosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral...

From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology. Offering a systematic exploration of the ways in which psychology is used in contemporary society, it refines our understanding of the...