|
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology
* Starts from the basics, focusing less on proofs and the
high-level math underlying regressions, and adopts an engaging tone
to provide a text which is entirely accessible to students who
don't have a stats background * New chapter on integrity and ethics
in regression analysis * Each chapter offers boxed examples,
stories, exercises and clear summaries, all of which are designed
to support student learning * Optional appendix of statistical
tools, providing a primer to readers who need it * Code in R and
Stata, and data sets and exercises in Stata and CSV, to allow
students to practice running their own regressions * Author-created
videos on YouTube * PPT lecture slides and test bank for
instructors
Short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science
Books, the Best Book of Ideas Prize, and the Society of Biology
Book Awards - Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and
New Scientist
A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather
than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, we create new
recollections each time we are called upon to remember. As
psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains, remembering is an act of
narrative imagination as much as it is the product of a
neurological process. In Pieces of Light, he illuminates this
compelling scientific breakthrough in a series of personal stories,
each illustrating memory's complex synergy of cognitive and
neurological functions.
Combining science and literature, the ordinary and the
extraordinary, this fascinating tour through the new science of
autobiographical memory helps us better understand the ways we
remember--and the ways we forget.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing
psychotherapy in the world today, largely because it has been
clinically-tested and found effective for a broad range of
psychiatric and psychological problems. CBT has strong clinical
support from both clients and clinicians who like its collaborative
process that uses practical tools and strategies for solving
everyday problems.
The challenge for many clinicians is finding practical ways to
integrate empirically-supported therapies into everyday clinical
practice with clients. While there are many outstanding books on
the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioral therapies, the CBT
Skills Workbook provides over 100 of the top hands-on practical
worksheets and exercises to help clinicians integrate CBT into
practice. The exercises and worksheets are designed to provide
powerful tools that can be used in individual or group sessions and
as homework assignments.
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that
we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then
do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science
now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent
decades, the mind - both human and otherwise - has been explored by
scientists in fields ranging from zoology to astrobiology, computer
science to neuroscience. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and
where they might be found - including in plants, aliens, and God -
Philip Ball pulls these multidisciplinary pieces together to
explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the
universe. In so doing, he offers for the first time a unified way
of thinking about what minds are and what they can do, arguing that
in order to understand our own minds and imagine those of others,
we need to move on from considering the human mind as a standard
against which all others should be measured, and to think about the
'space of possible minds'. By identifying and mapping out
properties of mind without prioritizing the human, Ball sheds new
light on a host of fascinating questions. What moral rights should
we afford animals, and can we understand their thoughts? Should we
worry that AI is going to take over society? If there are
intelligent aliens out there, how could we communicate with them?
Should we? Understanding the space of possible minds also reveals
ways of making advances in understanding some of the most
challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought?
What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? The
more we learn about the minds of other creatures, from octopuses to
chimpanzees, and to imagine the potential minds of computers and
alien intelligences, the greater the perspective we have on if and
how our own is different. Ball's thrillingly ambitious The Book of
Minds about the nature and existence of minds is more
mind-expanding than we could imagine. In this fascinating panorama
of other minds, we come to better know our own.
In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques
examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why
the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter
and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of
the human condition. He traces the origins of the problem of
psychology to a deep and profound gap in our knowledge systems that
emerged in the context of the scientific Enlightenment. To address
this problem, this book introduces a new vision for scientific
psychology called mental behaviorism. The approach is anchored to a
comprehensive metapsychological framework that integrates insights
from physics and cosmic evolution, neuroscience, the cognitive and
behavioral sciences, developmental and complex adaptive systems
theory, attachment theory, phenomenology, and social
constructionist perspectives and is well grounded in the philosophy
of science. Building on more than twenty years of work in
theoretical psychology and drawing on a wide range of literature,
Professor Henriques shows how this new approach to scientific
knowledge fills in the gaps of our current understanding of
psychology and can allow us to develop a more holistic and
sophisticated way to understand animal and human mental behavioral
patterns. This work will especially appeal to students and scholars
of general psychology and theoretical psychology, as well as to
historians and philosophers of science.
Discover the power of DBT with this 12-week workbook.
Getting started with dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) can feel like a lot, but this friendly guide breaks it down into simple steps over a clear, 12-week schedule that helps you build the skills to balance your emotions and achieve your goals! Each week, you'll practice healthier habits that make it easier to manage intense emotions, reduce stress, build happier relationships, and create lasting change in your life.
What is DBT?―Get an overview of DBT with simple terms and relatable examples to help you understand the 4 key principles: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Hands-on exercises―Dive into an easy-to-follow program of writing prompts, questions, routines, and more that make it easy to put DBT into practice every day.
Guidance from a therapist―Author Valerie Dunn McBee is offers compassionate support through her years of clinical experience.
Build stronger self-worth and emotional intelligence with The 12-Week DBT Plan.
MRI Atlas of the Infant Rat Brain: Brain Segmentation features an
entirely new coronal, sagittal and horizontal set of tissue cut in
regular 9 m intervals with accompanying photographs of MRI data and
color drawings of selected brain regions in the three planes. The
use of the single brain allows for greater consistency between
sections, while color masking offers advances in manual
segmentation techniques with increased refinement in the definition
of brain areas. Readers will benefit from uniform and consistent
manual tissue segmentation of MRI data in an infant rat brain. This
volume provides readers the first infant rat brain MRI atlas and a
valuable resource in research analyses of the developing brain for
structural and functional MRI analyses.
|
|