Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
How to Release Fear-Based Thinking and Feeling
An In-Depth Study of Spiritual Psychology Vol.1
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2001
One of the most profound and in-depth books ever written on how to release fear-based thinking and feeling and change it to love-based thinking and feeling. A revolutionary cutting-edge master thesis on the subject of Spiritual Psychology and how to realize it. The reader will never be the same after...
Touch and Blindness
Psychology and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Research on touch and blindness has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, with dramatic developments in technology designed to provide assistance to those who are blind, and advancements in robotics that demand haptic interfaces. Touch and Blindness approaches the study of the topic from...
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
How incidentally activated social representations affect subsequent thoughts and behaviors has long interested social psychologists. Recently, such priming effects have provoked debate and skepticism. Originally a special issue of Social Cognition, this book examines the theoretical challenges researchers...
Psychology's Territories
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives From Different Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
What are the conceptual and practical territories of psychology? How have the boundaries of psychological thought, research and practice developed in history, and how might they be renegotiated today? This volume presents new approaches to these questions, resulting from a three-year collaboration among internationally known psychologists, neurosci
by Dianna Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured? What are the factors that produce such vastly different performance experiences?...
Applied Musicology
Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Although research in music psychology, education and therapy has expanded exponentially in the 21st century, there is something of a 'black hole' around which much of the discourse circles: music itself. While writers have largely been occupied with what people think about musical engagement, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The present volume is a ground-breaking and agenda-setting investigation of the psychology of self-forgiveness. It brings together the work of expert clinicians and researchers working within the field, to address questions such as: Why is self-forgiveness so difficult? What contexts and psychological...
Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
A Developmental Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Written from a developmental perspective, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is organized around five prominent and recurring themes: the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction; maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path; maladaptive...
by Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In the course of their researches for Mental Imagery in the Child (1971), the authors came to appreciate that action may be more conducive to the formation and conservation of images than is mere perception. This raised the problem of memory and its relation to intelligence, which they examine in...
Getting Darwin Wrong
Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP...
Investigating Psychology
Sciences of the Mind After Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein’s investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time.
Rather than reflecting on the nature of psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Volume five continues to mark the significant advances made in the psychology of human intelligence, problem solving, and thinking abilities. Papers contributed by leaders in the field reflect a diversity of perspectives and approaches to the human intelligence. Subjects discussed include: * genetic...
by Lois Holzman
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Vygotsky at Work and Play is an intimate portrayal of the Vygotskian-inspired approach to human development known as ‘social therapeutics’and ‘the psychology of becoming’. Holzman provides an accessible, practical-philosophical portrayal of a unique performance-based methodology of development...