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• Edited by Lieven Verschaffel, Erik de Corte, Ton de Jong and Jan Elen.

Within an increasingly multimedia focused society, the use of external representations in learning, teaching and communication has increased dramatically. Whether in the classroom, university or workplace, there is a growing requirement to use and interpret a large variety of external…

ISBN: 9780415556743

Published Jul 28, 2010 by Routledge

• By James B. Worthen, and R. Reed Hunt.

This book bridges the gap between basic memory research and mnemonic applications through a careful analysis of the processes that underlie effective memory aids. The book traces the history of mnemonics, examines popular techniques, and discusses the current relevance of mnemonics to both…

ISBN: 9781841698946

Published Jul 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Peter A. Frensch, and Ralf Schwarzer.

This two volume set presents the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008, and written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances…

ISBN: 9781848720619

Published Jul 01, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Jerry M. Burger.

Despite widespread acknowledgment that both personal and situational factors influence behavior, researchers in the area of social influence have been slow to examine individual differences in their work. Indeed, social influence investigators often point to their findings to illustrate the power…

ISBN: 9781848727342

Published Jun 28, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Peter A. Frensch, and Ralf Schwarzer.

This is the first of two volumes which together present the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008, written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and…

ISBN: 9781848720220

Published Jun 16, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Lynn Meltzer.

This uniquely integrative book brings together research on executive function processes from leaders in education, neuroscience, and psychology. It focuses on how to apply current knowledge to assessment and instruction with diverse learners, including typically developing children and those with…

ISBN: 9781606236468

Published Jun 14, 2010 by Guilford Press

• Edited by Kathleen L. Mosier, and Ute M. Fischer.

ISBN: 9780203847985

Published Jun 14, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Norman Segalowitz.

Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that points to promising avenues for understanding and promoting second language fluency. Cognitive Bases of Second…

ISBN: 9780805856620

Published Jun 07, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Marie T. Banich, and Donna Caccamise.

While the notion of generalization fits prominently into cognitive theories of learning, there is surprisingly little research literature that takes an overview of the issue from a broad multifaceted perspective. This volume remedies this by taking a multidisciplinary perspective on generalization…

ISBN: 9781848728981

Published May 18, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper and William D. Crano.

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying…

ISBN: 9781848729087

Published May 18, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall and Paul de Mornay Davies.

This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and…

ISBN: 9781841697123

Published May 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Benjamin R. Newell, David A. Lagnado and David R. Shanks.

We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Straight Choices provides an integrative account of the psychology of decision making, in which clear connections are made between empirical results and how these results can help us to understand our uncertain world. Throughout the text,…

ISBN: 9781841695891

Published May 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Sergio Della Sala.

Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This…

ISBN: 9781848720121

Published May 04, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke and Thomas Schack.

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body…

ISBN: 9781848720244

Published Apr 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Emily Balcetis, and G. Daniel Lassiter.

This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in it with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world is…

ISBN: 9781848728042

Published Apr 11, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher and Rom Harré.

Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?…

ISBN: 9781841698687

Published Apr 06, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Antonio Zilhao.

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold – the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when…

ISBN: 9780415591607

Published Mar 31, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Nazanin Derakhshan, and Michael Eysenck.

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects of attention and of executive processes of working memory. The evidence discussed…

ISBN: 9781848727168

Published Mar 25, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By William Fish.

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enable us to acquire knowledge of the world in which we live, and what exactly it is we are aware of…

ISBN: 9780415999120

Published Mar 16, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Batja Mesquita, Lisa Feldman Barrett and Eliot R. Smith.

Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated. This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind. Leading experts explore how…

ISBN: 9781606235539

Published Mar 12, 2010 by Guilford Press