Distinguished Lecture Series – serie
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22 produkter
Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior
Av Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon
Häftad, 2013
870 kr
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The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong …
How Children Discover New Strategies
Av Robert Siegler, Eric A. Jenkins
Inbunden, 1989
1478 kr
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This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts. By using a trial-by-trial analysis, the authors are able to identify the exact trial on which the new strategy is first …
Decline and Fall of Hemispheric Specialization
Av Robert Efron
Inbunden, 1990
2439 kr
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Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues. To ensure a balanced overview, references are made to many books, review articles, and research reports that present opposing positions. …
Human and Machine Thinking
Inbunden, 1992
2439 kr
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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, …
Brain Plasticity and Behavior
Av Bryan Kolb
Inbunden, 1995
2585 kr
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There are few books devoted to the topic of brain plasticity and behavior. Most previous works that cover topics related to brain plasticity do not include extensive discussions of behavior. The first to try to address the relationship between recovery from brain damage and changes in the brain …
Cognition and Communication
Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
Inbunden, 1996
1478 kr
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Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not …
Synthesizing Nature-nurture
Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior
Inbunden, 1997
2510 kr
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This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes …
Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior
Av Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon
Inbunden, 2002
2439 kr
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The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong …
Child's Reality
Three Developmental Themes
Av D. Elkind
Inbunden, 1978
2439 kr
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First published in 1978. Focusing essentially on his own research and clinical observations, David Elkind - the clinician, researcher, and educator - has in these lectures both extended and further refined and defined the significance and utility of Piagetian concepts in understanding infant, …
Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space
Av W. R. Uttal
Inbunden, 1983
742 kr
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Published in the year 1982, Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.
Stories, Scripts, and Scenes
Aspects of Schema Theory
Inbunden, 1984
2585 kr
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First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series.
Personal Relationships
Their Structures and Processes
Inbunden, 1982
742 kr
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First published in 1982. This book summarizes certain concepts and evidence regarding the nature of close personal relationships. Its purpose is to suggest how such relationships are to be conceptualized for scientific analysis. What are the essential properties of a personal relationship? What are …
Sex Differences in Social Behavior
A Social-role interpretation
Inbunden, 1987
2439 kr
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In presenting an innovative theory of sex differences in the social context, this volume applies social-role theory and meta-analytic techniques to research in aggression, social influence, helping, nonverbal, and group behavior. Eagly's findings show that gender stereotypic behavior results from …
Brain and Perception
Holonomy and Structure in Figural Processing
Inbunden, 1991
2585 kr
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Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception -- reviewing current brain research and showing how several lines of inquiry have been converging to produce a paradigm shift in …
Cognition and Communication
Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
Häftad, 2014
573 kr
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Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not …
Human and Machine Thinking
Häftad, 2015
924 kr
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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, …
Brain Plasticity and Behavior
Av Bryan Kolb
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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There are few books devoted to the topic of brain plasticity and behavior. Most previous works that cover topics related to brain plasticity do not include extensive discussions of behavior. The first to try to address the relationship between recovery from brain damage and changes in the brain …
How Children Discover New Strategies
Av Robert Siegler, Eric A. Jenkins
Häftad, 2016
516 kr
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This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts. By using a trial-by-trial analysis, the authors are able to identify the exact trial on which the new strategy is first …
Mechanisms of Age-cognition Relations in Adulthood
Häftad, 2021
573 kr
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This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number of figures, has been preserved in order to keep the monograph faithful to the concept …
Decline and Fall of Hemispheric Specialization
Av Robert Efron
Häftad, 2016
800 kr
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Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues. To ensure a balanced overview, references are made to many books, review articles, and research reports that present opposing positions. …
Mechanisms of Age-cognition Relations in Adulthood
Inbunden, 1992
499 kr
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This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number of figures, has been preserved in order to keep the monograph faithful to the concept …
Synthesizing Nature-nurture
Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior
Häftad, 1997
323 kr
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This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes …
