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Neuropsychology of Criminal Behavior by Feggy Ostrosky
$99.33This book draws on findings from psychology, neurology, and genetics, to offer a multi-dimensional analysis of criminal behavior. It explores the biological bases of emotions such as aggression, anger, and hostility and how they-- combined with social... -
Deep Comprehension: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Understanding, Enhancing, and Measuring Comprehension by Keith K. Millis
$76.13This volume provides an overview of research from the learning sciences into understanding, enhancing, and measuring "deep comprehension" from a psychological, educational, and psychometric perspective. It describes the characteristics of deep... -
Mental Logic by Martin D. S. Braine
RRP: $105.28$92.18Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This... -
Strategies for Natural Language Processing by W. G. Lehnert
$180.57First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780898592665Author W. G. LehnertFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates IncPublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Personal Causation: The Internal Affective Determinants of Behavior by R. de Charms
RRP: $253.50$219.39First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780898593365Author R. de CharmsFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates IncPublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Learning As Self-organization by Karl H. Pribram
$85.80A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that "There are two unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the stimulating action of the environment and the response of the organism and one between consequences and the resulting change... -
Chaotic Cognition Pr: Chaotic Cognition Pr by Ronald A. Finke
$109.01Focusing on the principles and applications of chaotic thinking, this text seeks to promote a more general understanding and acceptance of this cognitive style. It may help people deal more effectively with chaotic situations, such as economic crises,... -
Through the Interface: A Human Activity Approach To User Interface Design by Susanne Bodker
RRP: $115.03$99.61In providing a theoretical framework for understanding human- computer interaction as well as design of user interfaces, this book combines elements of anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, software engineering, and computer science. The framework... -
The Mathematics of Behavior by Earl Hunt
RRP: $85.78$73.22Mathematical thinking provides a clear, crisp way of defining problems. Our whole technology is based on it. What is less appreciated is that mathematical thinking can also be applied to problems in the social and behavioral sciences. This book... -
Memory Search By A Memorist by Charles P. Thompson
$178.62This book describes the first comprehensive experimental research program on an individual who exhibits exceptional memory. Rajan Mahadevan, the subject of these investigations, won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for reciting pi to 31,811... -
Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference by Daniel S. Levine
$78.08The second published collection based on a conference sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics -- the first is Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks (LEA, 1992) -- this book addresses the controversy between... -
Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics: Basic Issues by Hans-Georg Geissler
$207.89The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contributors suggested that while many features of modern psychological theory were anticipated by Fechner, many... -
Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Evolutions in Design by Hugh Burns
$109.01This is a collection of essays on issues related to the evolutionary design and the practical future of intelligent tutoring systems. Following in the tradition of Foundations of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Lessons... -
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Core Principles for Practice by William T. O'Donohue
RRP: $124.70$108.58Learn and apply the 14 core principles of cognitive behavior therapy In this invaluable guide, clinicians will find identified and summarized by leading researchers and clinicians fourteen core principles that subsume the more than 400 cognitive... -
Mind Stimulation Therapy: Cognitive Interventions for Persons with Schizophrenia by Mohiuddin Ahmed
$119.46This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation techniques and operates out of a positive psychology framework... -
Cognitive Styles in Infancy and Early Childhood by Nathan Kogan
RRP: $97.48$84.83Originally published in 1976, here is a comprehensive account of the role of cognitive styles in early childhood. The author considers the possible precursors of these styles in infancy, and offers a new classification scheme that helps to clarify the... -
In Defence of Empirical Psychology by D. E. Broadbent
RRP: $105.28$91.40Originally published in 1973, this book contains the 1971 William James Lectures at Harvard, the first by that name to be given by a British psychologist. In addition, there are reprints of four shorter lectures which had not been easily available before... -
The Psychology of Dreaming by Josie Malinowski
RRP: $253.50$218.61Why do we dream? What is the connection between our dreams and our mental health? Can we teach ourselves to have lucid dreams?The Psychology of Dreaming delves into the last 100 years of dream research to provide a thought-provoking introduction to what... -
Cognitive Evolution: From Single Cells to the Human Mind by David B. Boles
RRP: $89.68$78.25Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans. Drawing together evolutionary, comparative, and neuroscience research, the book brings a unique cognitive... -
Music and the Aging Brain by Lola Cuddy
RRP: $230.10$206.15Music and the Aging Brain describes brain functioning in aging and addresses the power of music to both protect the brain from loss of function in normal aging, as well as how to cope with the ravages of brain diseases that accompany aging. By studying... -
Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions: Essays in Honor of George Mandler by William Kessen
RRP: $93.58$82.31For the past forty years, the ideas and findings of George Mandler -- and George Mandler himself -- have been highly influential throughout the field of experimental psychology. Not only has he helped to advance the study of cognition and emotion in many... -
Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction by Alan Garnham
RRP: $64.33$56.86First published in 1987, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of thinking machines. After a general introduction to AI, including its history, tools, research methods, and its relation to psychology,... -
Insight and Creativity in Problem Solving by Kenneth J. Gilhooly
RRP: $93.58$81.53To date we have only a fragmentary understanding of the thought processes that engender insightful solutions to problems that require a change in representation or the discovery of distant associations to presented information. We likewise have only a... -
Neural Theories of Mind: Why the Mind-Brain Problem May Never Be Solved by William R. Uttal
RRP: $105.28$91.40In this fascinating book, William R. Uttal raises the possibility that, however much we learn about the anatomy and physiology of the brain and psychology, we may never be able to cross the final bridge explaining how the mind is produced by the brain... -
Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain: Inference and Comprehension Processes by Franz Schmalhofer
RRP: $105.28$91.40Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive... -
The Nature of Expertise in Professional Acting: A Cognitive View by Helga Noice
$83.85For nearly 25 years, expertise has been considered an important testing ground for theories of cognition. Cognitive scientists have examined experts as diverse as chess masters, waiters, field-hockey players, and computer programmers. Recently, increased... -
Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Psychopathology by Jon Rolf
RRP: $263.25$202.16This important volume presents a definitive review of the origins and implications of developmental psychopathology and what has been learned about the phenomenon of psychosocial resilience in diverse populations at risk. Chapters by distinguished... -
Judgment Studies: Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis by Robert Rosenthal
RRP: $60.43$38.98Because of the complexity of human behaviour a great many research variables must be constructed from the building blocks of human judgement. A teacher's warmth, a psychotherapist's ability to create rapport, a patient's inner state - these all tend... -
Doing It Right the First Time: A Short Guide to Learning From Your Most Memorable Errors, Mistakes, and Blunders by Gerard I. Nierenberg
RRP: $42.88$28.39The ultimate guide to identifying and reducing mishaps--both atwork and in life Your mistakes need not be a fact of life. We can all learn to makefewer of them. In Do It Right the First Time, world renownedpersonal improvement guru Gerard Nierenberg... -
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation: A Practical Guidebook to the Most Effective Treatments by Kenneth A. Perkins
RRP: $253.50$218.61Practitioners helping smokers to quit can be more effective by learning key therapeutic techniques aimed at increasing any smoker's chances of success. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation is a valuable guidebook to an empirically based CBT... -
Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning by Siegfried Engelmann
RRP: $101.38$88.90This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an... -
Sensation and Perception by Hugh J. Foley
$145.47Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook makes technical scientific information accessible to those who are beginning... -
Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past by Nicholas E. Brink
RRP: $68.23$60.16Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy goes beyond the traditional objectivist approach of uncovering the what of a client's dysfunctional thinking by helping client and therapist understand why the client thinks in a dysfunctional... -
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
RRP: $35.08$23.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062219695Author Rolf DobelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 295g -
Behavior Analysis: Foundations and Applications to Psychology by Julian C. Leslie
$88.49This psychology textbook offers a comprehensive examination of the basic principles of behavior analysis and their application to issues of social significance.Behavioral scientists are interested in elucidating the fundamental principles that govern the... -
New Approaches in Reasoning Research by Wim De Neys
$99.33Reasoning research has long been associated with paper and pencil tasks in which peoples' reasoning skills are judged against established normative conventions. However, there has been a recent revolution in the range of techniques, empirical methods and... -
Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks: Readings in Cognitive Neuropsychology and Connectionist Modelling by Gillian Cohen
$67.24Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and... -
Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking: A Dynamic View by Cornelia Muller
RRP: $78.00$75.17Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive... -
Sensation and Perception by John Harris
RRP: $97.48$81.32Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears 'pop' on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully updated 2nd edition of Sensation and Perception is an accessible introduction to the field of perception... -
Cognition: Pearson New International Edition: The Thinking Animal by Daniel T. Willingham
RRP: $118.93$107.80For undergraduate courses of beginning graduate courses in Introductory Cognitive Psychology. Using a unique question-and-answer format, this text comprehensively addresses many of the overarching questions that confront and motivate today's cognitive...