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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes
empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and
experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental
conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter
thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who
present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to
their discipline. Volume 51 includes chapters on such varied topics
as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical
cognition, and reader participation in narrative. * Volume 51 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series * An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science * Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
Population aging is occurring worldwide. Reports of abuse and neglect of older men and women are also evident on a global basis. While much of the work on identification, treatment and prevention of abuse of older persons has been within the family setting, it cannot be separated from the broader experience of growing old in contemporary society. Time and time again, issues around legislation, policy and practice collide with human rights, societal attitudes and stereotypes. Raising awareness of the linkamong aging, ageism and abuse, is
one goal of this book and a necessary first step in the battle to
eliminate abuse and neglect of older persons. But awareness is not
enough, action needs to be taken to develop, case finding
procedures and remedial and preventive policies and programs that
are elder-friendly both in intent and in the way that they are
implemented. This book offers a thought-provoking examination of
selected current policies and programs that have been developed
within the health, social services and criminal justice systems. It
highlights the special issues and vulnerabilities of older women,
older men and persons from the LGTB community. It also features a
unique approach to reaching young people through an educational
program that shapes attitudes and behavior via graphic art. * Practical approach - readers can relate to the examples that are provided of situations in which abuse and neglect has or can occur"
Over the past two centuries, many aspects of criminal behavior have been investigated. Finding this information and making sense of it all is difficult when many studies would appear to offer contradictory findings. The "Handbook of Crime Correlates "collects in one source the summary analysis of crime research worldwide. It provides over 400 tables that divide crime research into nine broad categories: Pervasiveness and intra-offending relationships Demographic factors Ecological and macroeconomic factors Family and peer factors Institutional factors Behavioral and personality factors Cognitive factors Biological factors Crime victimization and fear of crime Within these broad categories, tables identify regions of the world and how separate variables are or are not positively or negatively associated with criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into separate offending categories of violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. Accompanying each table is a description of what each table indicates in terms of the positive or negative association of specific variables with specific types of crime by region. This book should serve as a valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior. References and all tabular materials can be found at our website: http: //booksite.elsevier.com/Ellis/
"International Review of Research in Mental Retardation" is an
ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects,
classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation.
Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including
genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral
sciences. Volume 38 of the series offers chapters on autism
intervention research, health, development and intellectual
disabilities, perceptual-motor deficits in Down syndrome, and
psychopathology in individuals with intellectual
disabilities. *Provides the most recent scholarly research in the study of mental retardation *A vast range of perspectives is offered, and many topics are covered *An excellent resource for academic researchers
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: Fourth Edition
(WISC-IV) is one of the most often used measures to assess
intelligence and cognitive functions in children, ages 6-16 years.
The second edition of the "WISC-IV Clinical Assessment and
Intervention" will include new information obtained from the
clinical use of the WISC-IV in practice. Information on the basic
use of the assessment tool is condensed from three chapters into
one, with four new chapters discussing how to use and interpret
WISC-IV with additional clinical populations. These new populations
include pervasive Developmental Disorders including autism, Social
and emotional disorders, psychiatric disorders, and medical
disorders that may affect intelligence. An additional new chapter
discusses intervention planning across patient populations. Each of
the chapters (revised original chapters and new chapters) will
additionally include case studies including diagnosis and
intervention.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of
the most sought after and most often cited series in this field.
Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical
interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new
research, theory, and practice in social psychology. For more information about the Elsevier Book Series on
ScienceDirect Program, please visit:
For both experienced psychologists and graduate students, this book
moves quickly through the essentials of WISC-IV interpretation and
onto an insightful analysis of the major cognitive domains assessed
by WISC-IV. It is the intention of the editors to raise the
standard of practice from a simplistic 'test-label-place' model to
a clinical model of assessing to understand and intervene. In the
first chapter, the reader is presented with a comprehensive array
of societal and home environment factors for which there is
empirical evidence indicating their impact on the development of
children s cognitive abilities, and ultimately their scores on
intelligence tests. Subsequent chapters address issues related to
the assessment of cognitive abilities that compose 'g', with
special emphasis on the clinical correlates of working memory and
processing speed from both neuropsychological and cognitive
information processing perspectives. Each new chapter builds on
material presented in previous chapters and progresses the reader
purposefully through deeper levels of understanding of WISC-IV and
cognitive assessment in general. Two chapters explicate the
processing approach to interpretation that is the corner stone of
the WISC-IV Integrated. A further chapter addresses the
interpretation of WISC-IV findings within the context of other
instruments as part of a full psychological evaluation. The final
chapter provides an extensive case example of how to write
psychological evaluation reports from a child-centered rather than
a score-centered perspective that can have transforming impact on
parents and teachers approach to the child. Overall, these four
authors are the architects of a masterful new book on advanced
WISC-IV interpretation from a clinical perspective, Together with
the complimentary book, WISC-IV Clinical Assessment and
Intervention, Second Edition these books provide the complete
spectrum of information needed by all psychologists who use the
WISC-IV in clinical practice.
Morality in context is a timely topic. A debate between
philosophers and social scientists is a good way to approach it.
Why is there such a booming interest in morality and why does it
focus on context? One starting point is the change in the
sociostructural and sociocultural conditions of modern societies.
This involves change in the empirical conditions of moral action
and in the social demand on morality.
This guide to the WAIS-III and WMS-III tests is written to help
clinical practitioners achieve efficient and accurate
interpretations of test results. The only interpretive guide to be
based on data obtained while standardizing the tests, this
reference source provides new models for interpreting results, as
well as practical information on the diagnostic validity,
demographically corrected norms, and accuracy of the tests in
measuring intelligence and memory.
The book is focused on defense mechanisms as theoretical constructs
as well as the possibilities of their empirical registration by
different methods, and the application of these constructs in
different fields of psychology with special regard to concurrent
and predictive validity. It is argued that defense mechanisms are
in many ways to be seen as integrative constructs, not necessarily
restricted to psychoanalytic theory and that the potential fields
of their application have a wide ranging scope, comprising many
fields of psychology. Consequently empirical studies are presented
from the fields of clinical and personality psychology,
psychotherapy research and psychosomatic phenomena and diseases.
Methodological questions have a heavy weight in most of these
studies.
Time-to-contact is the visual information that observers use in fundamental tasks such as landing an airplane or hitting a ball. Time-to-contact has been a hot topic in perception and action for many years and although many articles have been published on this topic, a comprehensive overview or assessment of the theory does not yet exist. This book fills an important gap and will have appeal to the perception and action community. The book is divided into four sections. Section one covers the foundation of time-to-contact, Section two covers different behavioral approaches to time-to-contact estimation, Section three focuses on time-to-contact as perception and strategy, and Section four covers time-to-contact and action regulation.
This book provides a unique cross-cultural perspective of the
WISC-III. From construction, translation and adaptation in
different cultures, to analysis of its structure and function as a
concept, to its clinical use with different ethnic groups, Culture
and Children's Intelligence provides clinician's the tools they
need when using the WISC-III. The focus of this reference work is
on children's intelligence as measured by the WISC-III in different
cultures and its use in these cultures (USA, UK, Canada, France,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Greece). It
also discusses the interpretation of the results of the WISC-III in
terms of cultural and ethnic factors.
This volume celebrates the first quarter century of publishing
Research in Organizational Behavior. From its inception, Research
in Organizational Behavior has striven to provide important
theoretical integrations of major literatures in the organizational
sciences, as well as timely examination and provocative analyses of
pressing organizational issues and problems.
The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of
current research on cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements.
The contents include peer-reviewed chapters based on a selection of
papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Eye Movements
(Turku, Finland 2001), supplemented by invited contributions. The
ECEM conference series brings together researchers from various
disciplines with an interest to use eye-tracking to study
perceptual and higher order cognitive functions.
Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic
Medical Association, and considered a national expert on holistic
psychiatry. In this book he brings together a comprehensive
overview of CAM treatments, with information on their effectiveness
and safety for specific patient populations and for use in treating
specific disorders. Modalities covered include Acupuncture,
Nutritional Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Meditation, Biofeedback,
Aromatherapy and others. Coverage also includes chapters on the
best CAM modalities for treatment of Anxiety and PTSD, Depression,
ADD, and Addictions.
This text provides an overview of the literature on bilingual sentence processing from a psycholinguistic and linguistic perspective. Research focuses on both the visual and spoken modalities, including specific areas of research interest including an integrated review of methods and the utility of those methods which allows readers to have the appropriate background and context for the chapters that follow. Next, issues surrounding acquisition and pragmatic usage are covered with a focus on code-switching and the actual parsing of sentence material both within and between languages. Third, issues regarding memory, placing language in a broader context, are explored as the connection between language, memory, and perception is reviewed for bilingual speakers. Finally, all of this work has direct implications for educational settings-specifically issues surrounding the assessment of proficiency, the development and nature of dominance, and the acquisition of reading skills and reading comprehension for bilingual speakers.
The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide
for educational and psychological professionals using
norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral
assessment of children. Written by key individuals involved in the
construction and evolution of the most widely used tests, this book
provides critical information on the nature and scope of commonly
used tests, their reliability and validity, administration, scoring
and interpretation, and on how the tests may differ and complement
each other in their utility with specific populations.
The pre-eminent 19th century British ethicist, Henry Sidgwick once
said:
Volume 22 of Research in Organizational Behavior continues the tradition of innovation and theoretical development with eight diverse papers. Most of these papers present theory and propositions that make linkages between different levels of analysis.
The idea for this book grew out of the conference "Motivational
Psychology of Ontogenesis" held at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. This conference
focused on the interface of development and motivation and
therefore brought together scholars from three major areas in
psychology - developmental, motivational and lifespan.
The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to
perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or
motor processes on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The
chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from
the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal
determination of an event within a series of events. The themes of the book are highly topical. There is a growing
interest in studies both with healthy persons and with patients
that focus on localization errors and dissociations in
localizations resulting from different tasks. These errors lead to
new concepts of how visual space is represented. Such deviations
are not only observed in the spatial domain but in the temporal
domain as well. Typical examples are errors in duration judgments
or synchronization errors in tapping tasks. In addition, several
studies indicate the influence of attention on both the timing and
on the localization of dynamic events. Another intriguing question
originates from well-known interactions between intermodal events,
namely, whether these events are based on a single representation
or whether different representations interact.
The world within reach is characterised to a large extent by our
ability to sense objects through touch. Research into the sensation
of touch has a long history. However, it is only relatively
recently that significant advances have been made in understanding
how information about objects we touch is represented in both the
peripheral and central divisions of the nervous systems. This
volume draws together the increasing body of knowledge regarding
the mechanisms underlying tactile sensation and how they relate to
tactile perception.
Tasting and Smelling presents a comprehensive overview to research on these two important modes of perception. The book offers a review of research findings on the biophysics, neurophysiology, and psychophysicsof both senses, as well as discussing the emotional component associated with taste and smell, and clinical disorders affecting each of these two senses. Tasting and Smelling answers how odors and flavors are perceived, why we have favorites, and what happens when our senses go awry. This book is of interest to the researcher in perception, cognition, or neurophysiology.
It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's
effect is another person's error term. By minimising and
occasionally ignoring individual and group variability cognitive
psychology has yieled many fine achievements. However, when
investigators are working with special populations, the subjects,
and the unique nature of the sample, come into focus and become the
goal in itself. For developmental psychologists, gerontologists and
psychopathologists, research progresses with an eye on their target
populations of study. Yet every good study in any of these domains
inevitably has another dimension. Whenever a study is designed to
turn a spotlight on a special population, the light is also shed on
the mainstream from which the target deviates. This book examines what we can learn about general and universal phenomena in cognition and its brain substrates from examining the odd, the rare, the transient, the exceptional and the abnormal.
This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations. This line of research was neglected as American psychology migrated towards behaviourism, where perception came to be thought of as being both a neural response to an external stimulus and a mediating neural stimulus leading to, or causing a muscular response. As such, perception becomes a question of how it is the perceiver creates neural representations of the physical world. Gestalt psychology, on the other hand, focused on perception itself, utilising the term Phenomenological Field; a term that elegantly nests perception and the organism within their respective, as well as relative, levels of organisation. With the development of servo-mechanisms during the second world war, systems theory began to take on momentum within psychology, and then in the 1970s William T Powers brought the notion of servo-control to perception in his book, "Behavior: The Control of Perception." Since then, scientists have come to see nature not as linear chain of contingent cause-effect relationships, but rather, as a non linear, unpredictable nesting of self referential, emergent coordinations, best described as Chaos theory. The implications for perception are astounding, while maintaining the double-aspect nature of perception espoused by the Gestalt psychologists. In short, system theories model perception within the context of a functioning organism, so that objects of experience come to be seen as scale-dependent, psychophysically-neutral, phenomenological transformations of energy structures, the dynamics of which are the result of evolution, and therefore, "a priori" to the individual case. This "a priori," homological unity among brain perception and world is revealed through the use of systems theories and represents the thrust of this book. All the authors are applying some sort of systems theory to the psychology of perception. However, unlike Dewey we have close to a century of technology we can bring to bear upon the issue. This book should be seen as a collection of such efforts. |
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