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  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 21
    • Inglés

  • Progress in Reversal Theory

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 51
    • M.J. Apter + 2 más
    • Inglés
    Reversal Theory is a new general theory of motivation, emotion, personality, psychopathology and stress which challenges previous ideas in these fields and sets up an unusually broad and integrative conceptual framework of its own. The papers in the six sections which make up this volume are concerned with: - developing the theory itself - looking at different research areas, or psychological problems, from the perspective of reversal theory - describing empirical studies of different kinds aimed at testing ideas drawn from the theory.

  • Personality in Search of Individuality

    In Search of Individuality
    • 1 Edición
    • Nathan Brody
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    In this, his fourth book published by Academic Press, the author pursues current theories in the expansive field of personality research. Presenting a unique perspective on recent developments in the field, the emphasis is on empirical research. Topics discussed include stability and change in traits, the behavior genetics of traits, a review and defense of trait theory, and a comprehensive review of research on the unconscious.

  • Complex Movement Behaviour

    'The' Motor-Action Controversy
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 50
    • O.G. Meijer + 1 más
    • Inglés
    The major focus of this book is on the differences between ecological approaches to action (`action theories'), and theories on motor control and learning couched in terms of information processing (`motor theories'). Proponents of both approaches express their views in Part 1 and the differences between the approaches are further analysed. Part 2 presents empirical studies, while in Part 3, methodological, philosophical and scientific implications are discussed and the possibility of a solution is considered.

  • Blind Alleys in Social Psychology

    A Search for Ways Out
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    • Volumen 48
    • A. Eskola + 4 más
    • Inglés
    Real advances are not made in blind alleys (or culs-de-sac). In Social Psychology, as in every branch of science, the paths which appear to offer progress do not always result in theoretical elegance. Certain basic problems persistently defy final solution.This volume surveys the foundations and methods of Social Psychology with the aim of identifying ways out of the research maze. It examines the history and traditions of the field, looks at methodology and conceptual schemes, and discusses the actual research methods used.

  • Cognitive Psychology and Reading in the USSR

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    • Volumen 49
    • J. Downing
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    The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English.The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the Soviet Union. A concluding chapter provides a commentary, tracing the links between these specialist contributions and the general cognitive theories of Vygotsky.The result of ten years of research, this book was completed by Professor Downing shortly before he passed away in June 1987.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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    • Volumen 20
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  • Human Factors Psychology

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    • Volumen 47
    • P.A. Hancock
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    This book is a collection of contemporary applications of psychological insights into practical human factors issues. The topics are arranged largely according to an information processing/energetic approach to human behavior. Consideration is also given to human-computer interaction and organizational design.

  • Tutorials in Motor Behavior I

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    • Volumen 1
    • George Stelmach + 1 más
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    The contributors to this book are all distinguished, internationally-know... specialists working in the motor control and learning area. The result is a unique collection of papers that discuss many aspects of this intricate and diverse subject and at the same time manage to provide the reader with a good overview of the major topics.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 20
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  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • Inglés

  • Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action

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    • Volumen 35
    • R.B. Cattell
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    With essentially the same basis as the 1971 Abilities, Their Structure, Growth and Action, this new volume reflects the developments of subsequent years.

  • Psychobiology and Early Development

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 46
    • H. Rauh + 1 más
    • Inglés
    This volume is the outcome of an international symposium held in Berlin, FRG, which brought together researchers in the field of infant development.The contributors are from Europe and North America, and have as their primary professional interest either pediatrics, biology or psychology. These fields, in spite of common involvement and large overlap, still have to overcome communication problems and differences in scientific approaches. The emphasis of this book is on the efforts of the participants towards reaching a mutual understanding. In spite of disciplinary diversity, the papers in this book complement each other, and set the scene for future multidisciplinary research and exchange in the field of infant development.

  • Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Aspects of Spatial Neglect

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    • Volumen 45
    • M. Jeannerod
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    Spatial Neglect is one of the few areas in Neuropsychology where clinicians, psychologists and animal experimenters have succeeded in adopting a common language. The result of interaction between these three approaches has been some important new advances, which are presented in this volume.Apart from its clinical significance in neuropsychology, Spatial Neglect raises important questions in the field of behavioral neurosciences. In this volume, three aspects are examined: a) normal subjects, where new findings on spatial behavior are described. b) brain-lesioned subjects, where the classical studies on neglect are reconsidered in the light of new findings. c) animals, where new experimental situations allow a deeper understanding of the neural substrate.

  • Attachment in Social Networks

    Contributions to the Bowlby-Ainsworth Attachment Theory
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 44
    • L.W.C. Tavecchio + 1 más
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    The main objective of the research presented in this book is to broaden the scope of attachment theory by stressing the importance of a social network approach to the study of attachment.This approach forms the integrating theme of this volume, as is testified by various studies of attachment as it develops in an "extended" rearing context over and beyond the limits of the traditional mother-child dyad. In this connection attention is paid to the importance of sibling relationships, attachment relationships with professional caregivers, the role of the father in caring and rearing young children, and the (short-term and long-term) effects on attachment quality of maternal employment in infancy. Also, the cross-cultural validity of Ainsworth's Strange Situation is discussed, with reference to the USA, Sweden, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, etc. In adopting a social network approach, the attachment theory proves to be a particularly useful instrument for reflecting on the consequence of social change (maternal employment, symmetrical families, socialisation of childrearing) for child development.

  • Psychology's Compositional Problem

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    • Volumen 41
    • K. Hillner
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    The primary purpose of this book is to document the pervasive ramifications of the compositional problem (the discipline's historical inability to define or give a technical specification to psychological phenomena) for the conduction of academic, experimental psychology at five levels of analysis: methodological, epiphenomenal, explanatory, metaphysical, and normative.

  • The Adaptive Brain I

    Cognition, Learning, Reinforcement, and Rhythm
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    • Volumen 42
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  • The Adaptive Brain II

    Vision, Speech, Language, and Motor Control
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 43
    • Inglés

  • Current Issues in Theoretical Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 40
    • W.J. Baker + 3 más
    • Inglés

  • The Roots of Perception

    Individual Differences in Information Processing Within and Beyond Awareness
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 38
    • U. Hentschel + 2 más
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    The subject matter of this book is subliminal perception and microgenetic perceptual processing, two important topics on the interface between perception and personality. It presents a different way of handling these topics, biological in its emphasis on process, humanistic in its focussing on the dynamics of individual experience. The reader will not only find new theoretical perspectives but a host of new, efficient and penetrating methods for analyzing problems of personality and psychopathology. The book is filled with empirical data supporting its theoretical and methodological claims.Main Features: - New perspectives on information processing in relation to personality. - New methods applicable in many fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental and personality psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, education (creativity), etc. - Constructive analysis and critical review of the fields of subliminal perception and microgenesis.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 20
    • Inglés

  • Human Movement Understanding

    From Computational Geometry to Artificial Intelligence
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 33
    • P. Morasso + 1 más
    • Inglés
    The volume applies to the study of the motor system the computational approach developed by David Marr for the visual system. Accordingly, understanding movement is viewed as an information processing problem, centred on the representation of appropriate computational structures. In particular, the book deals with the representation of objects, concurrent parallel processes, trajectory formation patterns and patterns of interaction with the environment.A number of modeling techniques are discussed, ranging from computational geometry to artificial intelligence, integrating very different aspects of movement, especially those which are not directly motoric.

  • Communication and Handicap

    Aspects of Psychological Compensation and Technical Aids
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 34
    • E. Hjelmquist + 1 más
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    Theory and data on various aspects of cognition, communication and handicap are presented here, related to two sorts of psychological compensation. On the one hand, basic principles of cognition are employed with the purpose of helping to overcome communicative difficulties among handicapped people, and on the other, various sorts of technical aids used for compensatory purposes are examined. Many of the papers presented here stem from a conference held in Stockholm in 1985, sponsored by the Swedish Council for the Planning and Coordination of Research, as part of a large-scale project on handicaps. Although researchers in psychology were in the majority, students of other disciplines also took part.

  • Motor Skill Acquisition of the Mentally Handicapped

    Issues in Research and Training
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    • Volumen 31
    • M.G. Wade
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    Based upon a conference held in Bethesda in 1985, this volume brings together the research and theoretical perspectives of experts in the developmental aspects of motor control, coordination, and skill in the mentally handicapped. This is accomplished within the context of cognition. Section I deals with the dynamics of controlling movement skill and the nature of the variables that mediate the learning of motor skills. Sections II and III examine the traditional area of research in motor behavior, i.e., the speed of information processing and reaction time paradigms. The last section discusses the issue of training to minimize the effects of mental retardation on motor behavior.

  • Theory Building in Developmental Psychology

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    • Volumen 36
    • P. van Geert
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    Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a specific empirical range (nature of the explained phenomena, prototypical experiments and applications, etc.).The first three parts deal with basic problems in modern developmental psychology, namely ways of describing development and how they direct theory formation; causes and conditions of development in relation with learning and the problem of precursors; and the individual and the socio-cultural dimension in theory building. The fourth part demonstrates three different forms of theory building, while the final part deals with an old philosophical problem in developmental psychology, the rationalism-empirici... controversy.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 19
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  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 19
    • Inglés

  • Inferences in Text Processing

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 29
    • H. Strohl-Goebel + 1 más
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    This volume critically evaluates the present state of research in the domain of inferences in text processing and indicates new areas of research.The book is structured around the following theoretical aspects: - The representational aspect is concerned with the cognitive structure produced by the processed text, e.g. the social, spatial, and motor characteristics of world knowledge. - The procedural aspect investigates the time relationships on forming inferences, e.g. the point of time at which referential relations are constructed. - The contextual aspect reflects the dependence of inferences on the communicative embedding of text processing, e.g. on factors of modality and instruction.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 19
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  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Neuropsychological Studies of Apraxia and Related Disorders

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 23
    • E.A. Roy
    • Inglés
    Apraxia is a term used to denote a disorder in the performance of limb, verbal and oral non-verbal gestures, with often preserved ability to perform these same gestures outside the clinical setting in the appropriate situation or environment. Over the past century and particularly in the past four decades, a great deal of research has focused on understanding the nature of this complex disorder.This book is a review of current approaches to the study of apraxia and related action sequencing disorders as well as an examination of the mechanisms thought to underly these disorders. Neuropathological processes associated with apraxia are evaluated and principles of motor control, handedness and bimanual coordination are considered as they relate to the study of apractic disorders.

  • Differing Perspectives in Motor Learning, Memory, and Control

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 27
    • D. Goodman + 2 más
    • Inglés

  • Psychophysiological Approaches to Human Information Processing

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 25
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  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 18
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 18
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 18
    • Inglés

  • Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 19
    • W.R. Crozier + 1 más
    • Inglés
    This book reviews progress and describes original research in the cognitive psychology of the arts. The invited contributors are leading authorities, and the topics which they cover include psychological approaches to symbols and meaning in art, issues in experimental aesthetics, the development in children of artistic production and appreciation, and the perception of musical and pictorial material.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 16
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 16
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  • European Conference on Eye Movements (2nd : 1983 : Nottingham, England)

    Theoretical and applied aspects of eye movement research: selected/edited proceedings of the Second European Conference on Eye Movements, Nottingham, England, 19-23 September, 1983
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 22
    • Inglés

  • Human Motor Actions

    Bernstein Reassessed
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • H.T.A. Whiting
    • Inglés
    Under the title The Coordination and Regulation of Movements, an English language version of six of the most important papers of the Russian physiologist Nicholas Bernstein was published in 1967 (Pergamon Press Ltd.). That work has been out of print for some years, but in view of the frequency of its citation in recent works on movement control, a republication was considered desirable. However, since some of the papers in the first edition were written in the 1930's, it was felt that readers' interests would be better served if, after each chapter, an evaluation of the work and, where necessary, an update of the data in the light of more recent findings was included. Contributors of international renown provide such chapters.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • Inglés
    Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to provide scholarly technical articles that serve as reference material and provide a forum for scholarly speculation. In these documented critical reviews, recent advances in the field are summarized and integrated; complexities are exposed; and fresh viewpoints are offered. They should be useful not only to the expert in the area but also to the general reader.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 16
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

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