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Название: Family Psychology: The Art of the Science (Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Psychology)
Автор: William M. Pinsof, Jay L. Lebow
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 610
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchers in family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance -- good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health.

Название: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders
Автор: David Groome
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 368
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

At once accessible and cutting edge, An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology is a uniquely comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students. In a single volume, it provides clearly signposted chapters on both normal cognitive function and related clinical disorders. Especially written to cover all levels of ability, it offers in-depth and up-to-date research to appeal to the most able students, with a clear and engaging text written by experienced teachers to help students who find the material difficult. Specially designed textbook features include chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary of key terms.

Название: The Psychology of Achievement: Develop the Top Achiever's Mindset
Автор: Brian Tracy
Издательство: Nightingale-Conant
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 27
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Success can be yours with Brian Tracy's The Psychology of AchievementDevelop the top achiever's mindsetThe world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs offers an inside look at the thinking that leads to great achievement. Drawing on the work of leading psychologists and behavioral researchers, Brian Tracy -- America's "success mentor" -- demonstrates the attitude, deep self-knowledge and pin-pointed goals that are important factors in achieving great success. He'll help you identify your own "area of excellence" and master the tools that make each achiever tick, including:How to sharpen your natural intuitionHow to increase your brain powerHow to change thoughts from negative to positiveHow to break bad habits quickly and painlesslyPacked with practical advice that lead to extraordinary results, The Psychology of Achievement will help you use every ounce of your potential

Название: Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings
Автор: Seth Robert Segall
Издательство: State University of New York Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 224
Размер: 795 kB
Язык: English

Practicing psychologists explore the mutual impact of Buddhist teachings and psychology in their lives and practice.

Название: Relationship Sabotage: Unconscious Factors that Destroy Couples, Marriages, and Families (Sex, Love, and Psychology)
Автор: William J. Matta
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 176
Размер: 726 kB
Язык: English

Hidden forces—memories of past poor or hurtful relationships—drive repressed feelings and emotions that are often outside our awareness. Though we want to love and be loved, to nurture and be nurtured, those forces can wreak havoc and cause relationship sabotage, destroying couples and even whole families. The scenario is so common, explains therapist Matta, that often people get divorced without even fully understanding why, or what is was that came between them. In many cases, what it was were the lingering but unconscious memories of lessons learned as far back as childhood. These lessons may have no true bearing or justification in the current relationship, yet they can strongly affect it, fueling marital games, extra-marital affairs, addictions, poor parenting practices and a host of other harmful actions. Matta argues that we can learn to recognize these imprints and move past them to build or keep rewarding relationships. His book makes us aware, and gives us the tools to break the cycle.

Название: The Psychology of Science Text Comprehension
Автор: Jose Otero, Jos A. Le?n, Arthur C. Graesser
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 472
Размер: 29 MB
Язык: English

This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely acknowledged that the comprehension of science and technological artifacts is very difficult for both children and adults. The material is conceptually complex, there is very little background knowledge for most individuals, and the materials are often poorly written. Therefore, it is no surprise that students are turned off from learning science and technology. Given these challenges, it is important to design scientific text in a fashion that fits the cognitive constraints of the learner. The enterprise of textbook design needs to be effectively integrated with research in discourse processing, educational technology, and cognitive science. This book takes a major step in promoting such an integration. This volume: *provides an important integration of research and theory with theoretical, methodological, and educational applications; *includes a number of chapters that cover how science text information affects mental representations and strategies; *introduces important suggestions about how text design and new technologies can be thought of as pedagogical features; and *establishes academic text taxonomies and a consensus of the criteria to organize inferences and other mental mechanisms.

Название: Superportraits: Caricatures And Recognition (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)
Автор: Gillian Rhodes
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 184
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of being more like the face than the face itself.How can we recognize such distorted images? Do caricatures derive their power from some special property of a face recognition system or from some more general property of recognition systems? What kind of mental representations and recognition processes make caricatures so effective?

Название: The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
Автор: Ron Sun
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 768
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology. It combines breadth of coverage with definitive statements by leading scientists in this field. Research in computational cognitive modeling explores the essence of cognition through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. Computational models provide both conceptual clarity and precision at the same time. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples.

Название: Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation
Автор: C. Fred Alford
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 182
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

My approach lo the natural law is inspired by an article by Henry Veatch, ''Natural Law: Dead or Alive?'' originally published in 1978.1 After a brief but encyclopedic review of the natural law since Saint Thomas Aquinas, whom he interprets in good Aristotelian fashion, Veatch concludes that even today those who talk about rights remain dependent on a natural law they do not acknowledge. Consider Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality (1978), which argues that human agents must recognize that their actions are both purposive, as well as voluntary and free. Furthermore, to recognize this is to recognize that this suite of affairs is good. But, to acknowledge that this is true for me is also to acknowledge that it must be good for any and every other human being.

Название: Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood
Автор: Nikolas Rose
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 236
Размер: 768 kB
Язык: English

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility and choice. The aim of this critical history is to diagnose and destabilize our contemporary "condition" of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.