Cognitive Psychology
mobi |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Brock L. Eide; Fernette Eide

CHAPTER 21 The Advantages of D-Strengths The first time we spoke with Sarah she quickly informed us, “I’m going to tell you everything as a story, because that’s how I ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Steven Pinker

Most people choose either the D card or the D card and the 3 card. The correct answer is D and 7. “P implies Q” is false only if P ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Michael Shermer

Campbell’s theory, as described in his 1972 Myths to Live By, is that myths serve four functions: (1) mystical, which “serves to awaken and maintain the individual sense of awe ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Maria Konnikova

Distancing Through Actual Distance And what if, like Watson, you simply can’t fathom doing something that would enable you to think of something else, even if you have all of ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Daniel Goleman

IN THE MENTAL GYM Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Daniel J. Siegel

ENCODING WITHOUT AWARENESS If you had been a volunteer in one of the classic studies of divided attention, it would have gone something like this: The researcher gives you a ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

Genes for Aggression Some scientists have focused their search for empathy genes on those that affect the neurotransmitter serotonin. Too much serotonin in the synapse has been linked to aggression. ...
( Category: Forensic Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Damasio, Antonio [Damasio, Antonio]

8 Building a Conscious Mind A Working Hypothesis It goes without saying that the construction of a conscious mind is a very complex process, the result of additions and deletions ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Eagleman

THE MULTITUDES Let’s circle back to how this allows us to think about our brains in a new way—that is, how the team-of-rivals framework allows us to address mysteries that ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:LIEBERMAN, Philip [LIEBERMAN, Philip]

The Evolution of the Functional Language System 137 ception, it also decreases biological fitness by making swallowing liquids and solid food more risky. The only biological function that the human ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Steven Pinker

BENEATH THE METAPHOR If learning and using a metaphor requires us to manipulate ideas in a deeper stratum of thought, do we have any idea what these ideas are? One ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Kaufman, Josh [Kaufman, Josh]

Launching the Application the First Time I have the basic features in place, but I’m having a problem: when I test the application by visiting the home page, I immediately ...
( Category: Educational Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-03-15 | Author:Howard Gardner

The Development of Bodily Intelligence in the Individual The prehistoric origins of bodily intelligence, and its relation to language and other cognitive functions, may forever be wrapped in uncertainty; but ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Cathy N. Davidson

Gloria Mark knows more about how we pay attention in the information-age workplace than just about anyone. Professor of informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Alexandra Horowitz

Dogs' easy mastery of new procedures and concepts presumably stops prior to grasping what a quark is. What they learn is neither academic nor scholastic. Still, most of what we ...
( Category: Zoology March 25,2014 )