Cognitive Psychology
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Brown, Peter C. [Brown, Peter C.]

Rule versus Example Learning Another cognitive difference that appears to matter is whether you are a “rule learner” or “example learner,” and the distinction is somewhat akin to the one ...
( Category: Educational Psychology July 31,2014 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:David R. Hawkins

Love Heals Love facilitates healing. It transforms life. We see this in the true story about a duck hunter who was suddenly changed by witnessing an act of love. One ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francine Shapiro

WOUNDED NEEDS No one is simple. We are all the product of an interaction between our genetic makeup and our experiences. Sometimes we can inherit predispositions to a variety of ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Blakeslee, Sandra & Hawkins, Jeff [Hawkins, Jeff]

WHAT A REGION OF CORTEX LOOKS LIKE We are now going to turn our attention to an individual region of cortex, one of the boxes in figure 5. Figure 6 ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Kellogg, Ronald T. [Kellogg, Ronald T.]

FEAR AS A PRIMAL EMOTION Perhaps the emotion best understood by science is fear. Although its valence is clearly negative, fear is a beneficial emotion in motivating avoidance of danger. ...
( Category: Neurology July 4,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Hawkins, David R. [Hawkins, David R.]

Resolution Hypotheses about the existence and nature of God have been the subject of discourse and debate by the greatest minds of Western culture over the centuries. The discourses collectively ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology July 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Thalma Lobel [Lobel, Thalma]

Pick On Someone Your Own Size Even though we perceive powerful people as taller than average, our impression of their height depends also on how powerful we feel in comparison. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Rosenbaum, David A. [Rosenbaum, David A.]

Typing The final class of phenomena I’d like to consider in this chapter on action concerns the parallel, interactive nature of action control. Consider typewriting. For typewriting to work, your ...
( Category: Neurology June 23,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Steven Pinker

342 | HOW THE MIND WORKS practice, the routes to automaticity, are called “mechanistic” and seen as detrimental to understanding. As one pedagogue lucidly explained, “A zone of potential construction ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Chris Frith

Our Perception of the World Is a Fantasy 115 message would arrive at the other end of the line and there would be no way of knowing that an error ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett

* * * capacity to use general information they obtain from their environments to presort their behavioral options before striking out. How does the new information about the outer environment ...
( Category: Humanism June 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

figments of realit y pincer-like claws and is carnivorous; it regards anything less than half its size, which moves, as food, which it attacks, snipping or tearing off any appendages. ...
( Category: Cognitive June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thagard, Paul

Conclusion Decision making is usually not a step-by-step verbal argument or a mathematical calculation, but rather a mental parallel process of inference to the best plan. This process involves assessment ...
( Category: Humanism June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Satel [Satel, Sally; O. Lilienfeld, Scott]

PHILOSOPHERS have wrestled for centuries with the question whether moral responsibility can exist in a world in which our every action is predetermined by a cascade of events leading up ...
( Category: Neuropsychology June 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Poundstone, William

Fairfield Sentry’s monthly returns were given to the hundredth of a percentage point. That means there are only two or three significant digits. Rounding discards information (or in this case, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 5,2014 )