Cognitive Psychology
epub |eng | | Author:John McQuaid

CHAPTER 7 Quest for Fire At the start of the twenty-first century, a coterie of amateur horticulturalists around the world began an unusual competition. Toiling in backyards, trading seeds, and ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Dan Ariely

FROM THIS EXPERIMENT, we saw that our capsule did have a placebo effect. But suppose we priced the Veladone differently. Suppose we discounted the price of a capsule of Veladone-Rx ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-09-18 | Author:Norman, Don [Norman, Don]

NARROW STRUCTURES A cookbook recipe is a good example of a narrow structure (figure 5.3). A narrow structure arises when there are only a small number of alternatives, perhaps one ...
( Category: Ergonomics February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Stephen S. Hall [Hall, Stephen S.]

CHAPTER TEN PATIENCE Temptation, Delayed Gratification, and the Biology of Learning to Wait for Larger Rewards The ego isn’t an organ that might sit in a central place like Descartes’s ...
( Category: Neuropsychology February 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:John Farndon

#26 Government In 1791, the great libertarian campaigner Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man that ‘society is a blessing, but government is evil’. In his typically robust fashion, ...
( Category: Trivia February 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Philosophy & Psychology

1. Schellenberg (2010) also puts forward a mixed position. But her conception of the intentional element of perception is different from the one suggested here. While she promotes a Fregean ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:George Lakoff [Lakoff, George]

Liberals regularly propose measures set within classical liberal economic theory: raising the minimum wage, massive programs for rebuilding infrastructure, better safety nets, early childhood education and better education in general, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Sian Beilock [Beilock, Sian]

CHAPTER 8 The Roots of Social Warmth In 1957 at the University of Wisconsin Primate Laboratory run by the psychologist Harry Harlow, Jane, a tiny one-day-old rhesus monkey, was separated ...
( Category: Developmental Psychology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]

We touched previously on research into the relationship between perception and the imagination. Studies of the brain and nervous system have revealed that in many cases the same neural systems ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-11-12 | Author:Richard J. Davidson & Anne Harrington

Depue, R. A., & Collins, P. E (1999). Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3), 491-569. Devinsky, 0., Morrell, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The intertwining between imagination and perception can now be explored in greater detail, in terms of the dynamic relationship at their emergence in any moment of experience. Husserl realized that ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Elizabeth A. Styles

The psychology of attention 112 performed task is changed. If the two tasks are resource limited, then there will be a complementary relationship between the two tasks, so that as ...
( Category: Neuropsychology January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:David Chalmers

Toward a Nonreductive Theory Even if consciousness cannot be reductively explained, there can still be a theory of consciousness. We simply need to move to a nonreductive theory instead. We ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Thomas Gilovich

7 The Imagined Agreement of Others Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 17,2015 )