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Books in Social sciences and humanities

    • The Second Handbook on Parent Education

      • 1st Edition
      • November 28, 1988
      • Marvin J. Fine
      • English
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      This book should enhance the reader's understanding of the contemporary scene in parenting education, including effective programming, important issues, and future trends.
    • Human Judgment

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 54
      • September 1, 1988
      • B. Brehmer + 1 more
      • English
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      There are four basic goals for research in SJT (Social Judgment Theory): - to analyze judgment tasks and judgmental processes; - to analyze the relations between judgmental systems (i.e. to analyze agreement and its structure), and between tasks and judgmental systems (i.e. to analyze achievement and its structure; - to understand how relations between judgmental systems and between judgmental systems and tasks come to be whatever they are (i.e. to understand processes of communication and learning and their effects upon achievement and agreement); - to find means of improving the relation between judgmental systems (improving agreement) and between judgmental systems and tasks (improving achievement).
    • Fuzzy Sets in Psychology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 56
      • September 1, 1988
      • T. Zetenyi
      • English
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      This volume provides an up-to-date picture of the current status of theoretical and empirical developments in the application of fuzzy sets in psychology. Fuzzy set theory could benefit researchers in at least two ways: first, as a metaphor or model for ordinary thought, and secondly, as an aid to data analysis and theory construction. One can find examples for both kinds in the volume, which will be of interest both to the advanced student in the field as well as to anyone possessing a basic scientific background.
    • Thematic Relations

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1988
      • Wendy Wilkins
      • English
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      Syntax and Semantics, Volume 21: Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these roles come to be associated with noun phrases. This book presents the interaction of components of the language faculty and other aspects of cognition. Organized into 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the semantic relations involved in verb–argument structure. This text then examines the predicate-argument representations, which have come to figure prominently in all current generative theories of syntax. Other chapters consider the generalizations about thematic relations that are most insightfully captured at the level of syntax of at the level of semantics. This book discusses as well the importance of thematic roles to the grammar. The final chapter deals with the central role of thematic roles in language comprehension. This book is a valuable resource for linguists, syntacticians, and semanticists with an active involvement in research on natural language.
    • Personality in Search of Individuality

      • 1st Edition
      • March 28, 1988
      • Nathan Brody
      • English
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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.
    • Sampling

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • July 1, 1988
      • P. R. Krishnaiah
      • English
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    • Progress in Reversal Theory

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 51
      • April 1, 1988
      • M.J. Apter + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      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.
    • Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Aspects of Spatial Neglect

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 45
      • March 1, 1987
      • M. Jeannerod
      • English
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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.
    • Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 35
      • July 1, 1987
      • R.B. Cattell
      • English
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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.