Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Sleeplessness
Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease.
It presents...
Attention, Representation, and Human Performance
Integration of Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a psychological...
Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Building an expert system involves eliciting, analyzing, and interpreting the knowledge that a human expert uses when solving problems. Expe rience has shown that this process of "knowledge acquisition" is both difficult and time consuming and is often a major bottleneck in the production...
by William Tutt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The purpose of this manuscript is to enable positive thought during challenging situations for those individuals inhabiting low income environments. This manuscript will inform ex offenders and gang members about their cognitive economical disadvantage that they are born into due to living in the...
An Introduction to Modern CBT
Psychological Solutions to Mental Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
An Introduction to Modern CBT provides an easily accessible introduction to modern theoretical cognitive behavioral therapy models. The text outlines the different techniques, their success in improving specific psychiatric disorders, and important new developments in the field.
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Prospective Memory
Remembering to Remember, Remembering to Forget
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This Brief offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the current developments in the field of prospective memory, or memory for delayed intentions. It explores several key areas in prospective memory research, including computational modeling, neuroscience and prospective memory, output monitoring,...
Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting
A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The chapters in this volume are testament to the many ways in which Robert Bjork’s ideas have shaped the course of research on human memory over four decades. It showcases the theoretical advances and recent findings by researchers whose work and careers have been influenced by Bjork.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metacognition involves the monitoring of performance in order to control cognition; however, it seems reasonable that much of this control runs implicitly (i.e.,...
Attention
A Neuropsychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Attention: A Neuropsychological Approach provides a fascinating overview of the neuropsychological aspects of attention, revealing how we select our information, divide our attention and control our focus of interest. Through fully integrating cognitive neuropsychological perspectives on attention,...
Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives
A Handbook for Professionals in Applied Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives captures the diversity and complexity of the executive system that underlies children's everyday life experiences. Acquisition of executive functions, such as interpreting communication cues and the perspectives of others, is foundational to and a function...
Psychophysics Beyond Sensation
Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate the extent of the domain of psychophysics, ranging from sensory processes, through sensory memory and short-term memory...
by W. Brian Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Economics is changing. In the last few years it has generated a number of new approaches. One of the most promising - complexity economics - was pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s by a small team at the Santa Fe Institute. Economist and complexity theorist W. Brian Arthur led that team, and in this...
The Development of Logic in Adulthood
Postformal Thought and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In this book Jan D. Sinnott synthesizes her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development to describe the growth of complex (or `postformal') thought in adults. She shows specifically how adults improve mentally over a lifetime and learn to think in more complex and wiser ways. Applications...
The Innate Mind
Volume 2: Culture and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
This is the second volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, and addresses such question as: To what extent are mature cognitive capacities a reflection of particular cultures and to what extent are they a product of innate elements?...