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Elsevier's Psychology collection is vital for students and psychologists, providing a thorough understanding of the mind and behavior. Covering human thought, development, personality, emotion, and motivation, it offers insights into both theoretical and practical aspects. Through topics like cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology, it equips researchers and students to address real-world challenges and advance their understanding of the field.

  • The Career Psychology of Women

    • 1st Edition
    • A. L. Betz
    • English
    Summarizing literature from the twenty-year-old field of women's career development, this book brings scholars and professionals up-to-date in their understanding of the factors influencing women's career choices and career adjustment across the life span. It serves as a vital base for theoretical and empirical work in the study of women's career development.

  • Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Aspects of Spatial Neglect

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45
    • M. Jeannerod
    • English
    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
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44
    • L.W.C. Tavecchio + 1 more
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 41
    • K. Hillner
    • English
    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
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42
    • English

  • The Adaptive Brain II

    Vision, Speech, Language, and Motor Control
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43
    • English

  • Current Issues in Theoretical Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 40
    • W.J. Baker + 3 more
    • English

  • The Roots of Perception

    Individual Differences in Information Processing Within and Beyond Awareness
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38
    • U. Hentschel + 2 more
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Human Movement Understanding

    From Computational Geometry to Artificial Intelligence
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 33
    • P. Morasso + 1 more
    • English
    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
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34
    • E. Hjelmquist + 1 more
    • English
    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
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31
    • M.G. Wade
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • P. van Geert
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • REPLACEMENT TAPE For Music Cogntion

    • 1st Edition
    • W. Jay Dowling
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Inferences in Text Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • H. Strohl-Goebel + 1 more
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Neuropsychological Studies of Apraxia and Related Disorders

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • E.A. Roy
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27
    • D. Goodman + 2 more
    • English

  • Psychophysiological Approaches to Human Information Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • W.R. Crozier + 1 more
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Contemporary Psychiatry

    • 1st Edition
    • Sidney Crown
    • English

  • 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
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Human Motor Actions

    Bernstein Reassessed
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • H.T.A. Whiting
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English
    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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • The Counselor as Gatekeeper

    Social Interaction in Inverviews
    • 1st Edition
    • Frederick Erickson + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Teaching History of Psychology

    A Handbook
    • 1st Edition
    • Ludy T. Benjamin
    • English

  • Cognition and Memory

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • F. Klix + 1 more
    • English

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