Cognitive Psychology
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:John R Searle [JOHN R. SEARLE]

Consciousness and Value Any attempt to describe consciousness, any attempt to show how consciousness fits into the world at large, always seems to me inadequate. What we are leaving out ...
( Category: Humanism April 15,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Suzana Herculano-Houzel

It seems fitting that great apes, elephants, and probably cetaceans have similar numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the range of 3 to 9 billion: fewer than humans ...
( Category: Biology April 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Nigel Benson

Education According to the Gestalt approach (see Wertheimer’s Productive Thinking, 1945), the learner perceives the learning situation as a whole. So, the teacher should present the learning situation as a ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 11,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Kandel, Eric R. [Kandel, Eric R.]

WITH THE TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE SUPPORT of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in hand, we could now address questions about genes and memory. Since 1961 my experimental ...
( Category: Neurology April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-20 | Author:Benjamin Kilham

In our world things are much more complicated, and perceptions of fairness are a lot less exact. Today, when people think about a contract, we think about a legal document ...
( Category: Wildlife April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi M. Ravven [Ravven, Heidi M.]

Can anyone ever engage in open-minded, non–post hoc reasoning [i.e., moral reasoning that does not consist in rationalizations after the fact] in private? Yes . . . [but that is] ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Keane, Webb

DISCIPLINING THE CLASH OF VOICES The clashing voices of Don Gabriel all inhabit a single monologue. We can’t know for sure how consciously artful or not his performance is—it is ...
( Category: General April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:Kennerley, Helen & Westbrook, David & Kirk, Joan [Kennerley, Helen]

Lie down to go to sleep only when you feel sleepy. Do not use your bedroom for anything other than sleep. The only exception to this is sex. If you ...
( Category: Cognitive April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sheldon Solomon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: THE LASH AND THE BACKLASH The September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center and ensuing events poignantly illustrate how death fears ...
( Category: Death March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Judith S. Beck, PhD

Over the next few weeks, Maxine gradually introduced additional changes—some temporary and others permanent. For example, she decided to cook just one meal for everyone. She got Claire to help ...
( Category: Cognitive March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Raymond Tallis

The eyes can be used in very subtle and complicated ways as instruments of deliberate communication. I can dilate my eyes – more strictly my orbital fissure, put into upper ...
( Category: Physical March 13,2016 )
mobi |rus | 2004-06-04 | Author:Ernst Mayr

1979). But the question that is really before us is not so much whether natural selection is now universally adopted by evolutionists – a question one can unhesitatingly answer affirmatively ...
( Category: Zoology March 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Shlomo Benartzi [Benartzi, Shlomo]

Behavioral Solution: Acknowledge Those Limits A powerful first step toward a solution for this behavioral challenge is awareness. Be aware that the problem exists and that we all fall prey ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 4,2016 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Nisbett, Richard [Nisbett, Richard]

Easterners are almost surely closer to the truth than Westerners in their belief that the world is a highly complicated place and Westerners are undoubtedly often far too simple-minded in ...
( Category: Cultural March 2,2016 )