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Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition by Michael Cole 9780521552387
RRP: $243.75$181.80This volume brings together articles from the Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition that are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual foundations of human development... -
Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education by Gordon Wells 9780521631334
RRP: $214.50$149.19For more than a quarter of a century, the polemics surrounding educational reform have centered on two points of view: those who favor a 'progressive' child-centered form of education, and those who would prefer a return to a more structured,... -
Psychological Investigations of Competence in Decision Making by Kip Smith 9780521583060
RRP: $195.00$150.33The premise of this book is that most activity in everyday life and work is based on tasks that are novel, infrequent in our experience, or variable with respect to the action to be taken. Such tasks require decisions to be made and actions taken in the... -
Cognitive Developmental Change: Theories, Models and Measurement by Andreas Demetriou 9780521184007
RRP: $72.13$56.12Cognitive Developmental Change makes a fascinating contribution to the fields of developmental, cognitive and educational science by bringing together a uniquely diverse range of perspectives for analysing the dynamics of change. Connecting traditional... -
Interactions Among Aptitudes, Strategies, and knowledge in Cognitive Performance by Wolfgang Schneider 9780387970523
$88.47During the past two decades, a renewed interest in children's cognitive devel opment has stimulated numerous research activities that have been summarized in hundreds of books. In our view, the field of memory development provides a particularly nice... -
Overcoming Paranoid & Suspicious Thoughts (16pt Large Print Edition) by Daniel Freeman 9780369304841
RRP: $58.48$52.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369304841Author Daniel FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 535g -
Succeed at Psychometric Testing: Practice Tests for Data Interpretation 2nd Ed by Sally Vanson 9780340969281
$20.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Context of Cognition: Emerging Perspectives: Volume 75 by Kara D. Federmeier 9780323901352
RRP: $216.45$215.98The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.Book InformationISBN... -
Human Performance by Paul Morris Fitts 9780313212451
$127.78An attempt to create a framework for understanding the complexities of human performance by specifying the capacities that man brings to the performance of intellectual and physical skills.Book InformationISBN 9780313212451Author Paul Morris FittsFormat... -
Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration by Jeffrey B. Rubin 9780306454417
RRP: $175.48$175.25There is currently a burgeoning interest in the relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist meditative traditions among therapists, researchers, and spiritual seekers. Psychotherapy and Buddhism initiates a conversation between these... -
Redefining Families: Implications for Children's Development by Adele Eskeles Gottfried 9780306445590
RRP: $175.48$175.25Families are undergoing dramatic changes in our society. Our tradi tional views are being challenged by new family arrangements. These new family arrangements are forcing redefinitions of what consti tutes a family and raising significant issues... -
Creativity and the Mind: Discovering the Genius Within by Thomas B. Ward 9780306450860
RRP: $87.73$87.69In this provocative book, acclaimed psychologists Thomas Ward, Ronald Finke, and Steven Smith eloquently portray the fascinating processes of the creative mind at work, and hand us the invaluable tools with which we can mine our most valued and important... -
American and Chinese Perceptions and Belief Systems: A People's Republic of China-Taiwanese Comparison by Jean Bryson Strohl 9780306449802
$176.03Based on a comparative analysis of Chinese and American students,this unique study offers insights into the contemporary views and values developed in three different socio-political settings-the post-modern, industrial environment of the United States;... -
Cognitive Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Perspective by Cecil R. Reynolds 9780306444340
RRP: $175.48$175.25This volume is an outgrowth of an invitational conference held in October 1991 on the main campus of Texas A&M University and sponsored by a grant from the Dean's Office of the College of Education. The expressed purpose of the conference was to... -
Time Pressure and Stress in Human Judgment and Decision Making by A.J. Maule 9780306444265
$178.37Some years ago we, the editors of this volume, found out about each other's deeply rooted interest in the concept of time, the usage of time, and the effects of shortage of time on human thought and behavior. Since then we have fostered the idea of... -
Psychology and Education: Parallel and Interactive Approaches by Joseph M. Notterman 9780306443640
RRP: $87.73$87.69Drawing on the tradition of John Dewey and William James, the authors offer a concise overview of psychological theories and their applications to education, while managing to maintain the distinction between the two disciplines. Their seminal work will... -
Entitlement and the Affectional Bond: Justice in Close Relationships by Melvin J. Lerner 9780306446993
$176.03If the truth were told, this volume and its direct antecedents must rank among the most ambitious, if not simply pretentious, endeavors imag inable, at least in the social sciences. The titles of the volume and the chapters, promising to integrate the... -
Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science by Ben Goertzel 9780306446900
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and... -
The Discursive Social Psychology of Evidence: Symbolic Construction of Reality by Salomon Rettig 9780306437014
RRP: $175.48$175.25Having spent more than thirty years in the laboratory studying human behavior under preformatted, controlled conditions, I found myself dissatisfied with my work. It is not that my work produced no new findings on human conduct, or that working almost... -
Classics of Semiotics by Martin Krampen 9780306423215
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book is designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies. It analyzes the most important approaches to semiotics as they have developed over the last hundred years out of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and biology. As a science... -
Meaning and Context: An Introduction to the Psychology of Language by Hans Hormann 9780306422966
$177.20At the time of his death Hans Hormann, then Professor of Psy- chology at the Ruhr University, Bochum, West Germany, was pre- paring an English language version of his Eirifilhrung in die Psycholinguistik. The goal of this book, in both the German and... -
Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge by Kevin T. Dann 9780300206395
$39.47In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient-a synaesthete-experienced "color... -
Prenatal Development of Postnatal Functions by Brian Hopkins 9780275981266
$163.10This book shows how, and in what ways, prenatal development serves as a preparation for life after birth. Largely, such explanation stemming from the transnatal continuity theory has been ignored in mainstream developmental psychology. However, since the... -
Personal Motivation: A Model for Decision Making by Robert P. Cavalier 9780275975746
$59.88A new text for positive psychology, this book places the self as the decision-maker at the center of the motivational process. Personal Motivation represents a new approach for student and scholar to consider motivation theory, self theory and decision... -
Mind and Maze: Spatial Cognition and Environmental Behavior by Ann Sloan Devlin 9780275967840
$162.32In Mind and Maze: Spatial Cognition and Environmental Behavior, Ann Sloan Devlin takes the reader on a journey from the crib to the city, examining at each life phase the development of how we know where we are in space and our appreciation of spatial... -
Language and Thought in Humans and Computers: Theory and Research in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Science by Morton Wagman 9780275961794
$162.32A comprehensive analysis of current theory and research in the psychological, computational, and neural sciences elucidates the stuctures and processes of language and thought. Chapters discuss language comprehension and artificial intelligence, ARCS... -
Cognitive Science and the Mind-Body Problem: From Philosophy to Psychology to Artificial Intelligence to Imaging of the Brain by Morton Wagman 9780275960315
$127.78A scholarly examination of the centrality of the mind-body problem within and across the science of cognition-from philosophy to psychology to artificial intelligence to neural science. Conceptions of the mind-body problem range from the heritage of... -
The General Unified Theory of Intelligence: Its Central Conceptions and Specific Application to Domains of Cognitive Science by Morton Wagman 9780275956226
$127.78The general unified theory of intelligence addresses the cognitive functions of thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. At an abstract level, this theory construes the intellective functions of humans and computers as, respectively, restricted and... -
Brain, Mind, and Behavior: A New Perspective on Human Nature by David Robinson 9780275954680
$127.78This is a most unusual book with profound social, political, and philosophical implications that will inform the national debate on intelligence. It combines personality, temperament, and intelligence in a common theory that demonstrates the fundamental... -
Russian Contributions to Invertebrate Behavior by Charles I. Abramson 9780275945251
$162.32This edited collection is an introduction to the invertebrate work being performed by Russian scientists. The major emphasis is on studies of learning. In this book, the editors and contributors have brought together contemporary Russian experimental... -
Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Research in Cognitive Science by Morton Wagman 9780275943028
$127.78The nature of cognition is examined by the methods of experimental cognitive psychology and the theoretical models of computational psychology. First explained is the nature and objectives of artificial intelligence, symbolic and connectionist paradigms,... -
Teaching Critical Thinking by Grace E. Grant 9780275927493
$127.78Teaching Critical Thinking presents case studies of teaching in four disciplines, demonstrating how teachers view secondary content and transform content knowledge into work tasks for students. Based on interviews and classroom observation, the volume... -
Albert Ellis: Passionate Skeptic by Daniel N. Wiener 9780275927516
$145.04A psychotherapist and long-time acquaintance of Albert Ellis presents a biography of one of the leading contributors to the theory and practice of modern psychotherapy. Ellis, a prodigious writer, has been a center of controversy for his writings on sex,... -
A Guide to the Mind by Gary .V. Pavek 9780275930103
$59.88What is the mind? How can we study the mind? How did it emerge? What are the characteristics and capabilities that make us distinctly human? These questions and others are carefully examined in this clearly written and provocative guide to the most... -
Cognition and Personal Structure: Computer Access and Analysis by James C. Mancuso 9780275926069
$163.10The 12 chapters in this anthology describe ten different computer programs designed to help quantify the knowledge systems people use as they assimilate different types of information. The programs range from one used to analyze the knowledge structures... -
Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life by Francisco J. Varela 9780262720199
$157.48Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living. The recent surge of interest in artificial life has pushed a whole... -
Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference by Elliott Sober 9780262691444
$54.85Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more closely related to chimps than they are to gorillas. It explores the case... -
Systems That Learn: An Introduction to Learning Theory for Cognitive and Computer Scientists by Daniel N. Osherson 9780262650243
RRP: $48.75$35.30A mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains. Systems That Learn presents a mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains. It provides the basic concepts and techniques of learning theory as well... -
Using Computers: The Human Factors of Information Systems by Raymond S. Nickerson 9780262640220
RRP: $78.00$59.94Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society. He focuses particularly on the study of person-computer interaction, noting how computers are... -
The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics by Jerry A. Fodor 9780262560931
$52.65Written in a highly readable, irreverent style, The Elm and the Expert provides a lively discussion of semantic issues about mental representation, with special attention to issues raised by Frege's problem, Twin cases, and the putative indeterminacy of...