Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

This book tries to answer the question posed by Minsky at the beginning of The Society of Mind: "to explain the mind, we have to show how minds are...

Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and anal...

How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts the "cart before...

One of the most profound insights of the dynamic systems perspective is that new structures resulting from the developmental process do not need to...

Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins...

The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contri...

The impact of public narratives has been so broad (including effects on beliefs and behavior but extending beyond to emotion and personality), that...

Thirty-three of the top scholars in this fast moving domain present a picture of work at the cusp in social psychology -- work that deals with cogn...

The recent evolution of western societies has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on information and communication. As the amount of avail...

This volume is a direct result of an international conference that brought together a number of scholars from Europe and the United States to discu...

This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volum...

This volume presents the most current perspectives on the role of metacognition in diverse educationally relevant domains. The purpose is to examin...

Q: Why do organisms need cognition? A: To get information about their environments. Q: Why such information? A: Because organisms need to guide ...

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skil...

Comprehension Processes in Reading addresses the interrelationship among several areas relevant to understanding how people comprehend text. The co...

The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on...

Coping with spatial expressions in a plausible manner is a crucial problem in a number of research fields, specifically cognitive science, artifici...

A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that "There are two unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the stimulating action of t...

The fact that cognitive psychology has become largely concerned with a handful of laboratory tasks has brought expressions of concern and suggestio...

Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Ne...

Offering a unique focus on the development of human communication, this book integrates and synthesizes a more comprehensive array of research than...

To define better techniques of mathematics education, this book combines a knowledge of cognitive science with mathematics curriculum theory and re...

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelli...

This volume investigates our ability to capture, and then apply, expertise. In recent years, expertise has come to be regarded as an increasingly v...

In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: s...

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and w...

This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the famous and influential work of Jean Piaget and Alina Szeminska, The Child's Conception of Number...

The chapters in this new book span the range of reading processes from early visual analysis to semantic influences on word identification, thus pr...

History is both an academic discipline and a school subject. As a discipline, it fosters a systematic way of discovering and evaluating the events ...

The proposed levels theory presented in this book concerns some developmental changes in the capacity to selectively encode information and provide...

The usual method for studying mental processes entails taking words in linguistics -- or concepts in logic -- and establishing the connections and ...

One of the most active fields of educational research in recent years has been the investigation of problem-solving performance. Two opposing views...

This volume is a direct result of an international conference that brought together a number of scholars from Europe and the United States to discu...

The fact that cognitive psychology has become largely concerned with a handful of laboratory tasks has brought expressions of concern and suggestio...

Thirty-three of the top scholars in this fast moving domain present a picture of work at the cusp in social psychology -- work that deals with cogn...

This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational...