Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135664315Author K. Thomas FinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Prentice-HallPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 474g

Your brain is like a sleeping giant - its potential is far greater than was generally imagined. Even the commonly heard statement that on average we use only one per cent of our brains may well be an overestimation. Tony Buzan, the leading expert in the...

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Psychodynamic Therapy reintroduces psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical, and immediate in their application. Huprich readily demonstrates that, contrary to what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859063941Author Charles PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Connections Book Publishing LtdPublisher Eddison Books Ltd

In this book, Charles Phillips presents 100 engaging puzzles and posers, tasks and challenges, specially designed to exercise your memory and improve your powers of recall. These are supplemented by practical tips and routines for developing and...

This concise introduction to cognitive science provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain and teach the underlying unity of the field.About the AuthorMichael...

By being guided to look at their eyes beyond the diagnosis of a problem, readers will come to understand that their visual symptoms are valuable messages through which they can be more aware of their true nature. If an eye problem exists, a person can...

Western science teaches that our beings are governed by the laws of physics and our minds play no part. There are, however, flaws in this thinking, most prominently unexplained paranormal phenomena that defy explanation by modern theories of physics...

This book brings together mobilities and possibility studies by arguing that the possible emerges in our experience in and through acts of movement : physical, social and symbolic. The basic premise that mobility begets possibility is supported with...

This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do. The chapters examine the origins of a given action rather than their superficial appearance, which can often be misleading. Kovac integrates the existing knowledge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647435127Author Peter HollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647434410Author Nick TrentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914232657Author Steven ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Digital Island System L.T.D.Publisher Digital Island System L.T.D.Weight(grams) 152g

'Necessary Knowledge' takes on one of the big questions at the heart of the cognitive sciences - what knowledge do we possess at birth, and what do we learn along the way? It is now widely accepted that evolution, individual development, and individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262510486Author James A. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607961390Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackImprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869032270Author Andrew VonaschFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint IrfanPublisher IrfanWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647430023Author Peter HollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893300185Author Alan BenesiFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 240g

The human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people has been the focus of research in cognitive neuroscience for decades. What have we learned about this ability, and what open questions remain? In this Element the authors address...

The visual world is full of detail. This Element focuses on this variability in perception, asking how it affects performance in visual tasks and how the variability is represented by human observers. The authors highlight different methods for assessing...

Originally published in 1982, this book (following the previous volume published in 1974) continued to look at current issues in theoretical and cognitive psychology and looked for new directions for fruitful theory and research. The major concern for...

We are all familiar with the feeling of being stuck when a problem we are faced with seems intractable and we are unable to find a solution. But sometimes, a new way of seeing the problem pops into the mind from out of the blue. The missing piece of the...

An influential body of recent work on moral psychology has stressed the interconnections among ethics, narrative, and empathy. Yet as Patrick Colm Hogan argues, this work is so vague in its use of the term 'narrative' as to be almost substanceless, and...

The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action,...

There have been tremendous advancements in technology-based assessments in new modes of data collection and the use of artificial intelligence. Traditional assessment techniques in the fields of psychology, business, education, and health need to be...

Empathy provides a cognitive and emotional bridge that connects individuals and promotes prosocial behavior. People empathize with others via two complementary perceptual routes: Cognitive Empathy or the ability to accurately recognize and understand...

Society within the Brain provides insightful accounts of scientific research linking social connection with brain and cognitive aging through state-of-the-art research. This involves comprehensive social network analysis, social neuroscience,...

Humans constantly search for and use information to solve a wide range of problems related to survival, social interactions, and learning. While it is clear that curiosity and the drive for knowledge occupies a central role in defining what being human...

'Encouraging Innovation: Cognition, Education, and Implementation' is of interest to people who desire to become more innovative in their daily lives and careers. Part I discusses the cognitive and social skills required for innovation – reasoning,...

'Encouraging Innovation: Cognition, Education, and Implementation' is of interest to people who desire to become more innovative in their daily lives and careers. Part I discusses the cognitive and social skills required for innovation – reasoning,...

People often confuse intuition with a sixth sense or the arbitrary judgments of inept decision makers. In this book, Gerd Gigerenzer analyzes the war on intuition in the social sciences beginning with gendered perceptions of intuition as female, followed...

People often confuse intuition with a sixth sense or the arbitrary judgments of inept decision makers. In this book, Gerd Gigerenzer analyzes the war on intuition in the social sciences beginning with gendered perceptions of intuition as female, followed...

Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume...

Without inductive reasoning, we couldn't generalize from one instance to another, derive scientific hypotheses, or predict that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning. Despite the widespread nature of inductive reasoning, books on this topic are rare...

Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making are distinct from traditional accounts in psychology and neuroscience. While these traditional accounts focus on limitations of the human mind as a major source of bounded rationality, the sampling...

We are bombarded with information - press releases, television news, internet websites, and office memos, just to name a few - on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that may or need to be inferred from such information are typically not...

The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to evaluate conclusions, such as logic, probability, and...

Creativity is usually seen as a good thing, but why? The Creativity Advantage first offers an overview of creativity studies with an emphasis on the little-discussed benefits of being creative. These include how creativity can lead to self-insight, help...