Mechanisms Of Everyday Cognition

Author : James M. Puckett,Hayne W. Reese
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317728474

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Mechanisms of Everyday Cognition by James M. Puckett,Hayne W. Reese Pdf

Based on the proceedings of the twelfth biennial conference on life-span developmental psychology, most of the contributions in this volume deal with the mechanisms of everyday cognition. However, a broad spectrum of additional concerns is addressed within the domain of everyday cognition: its metatheoretical underpinnings, theory and theoretical issues, methods of investigation, empirical considerations, and social issues and applications. Addressing everyday cognition in infancy, childhood, adolescence, young and middle adulthood, and old age, this book is consistent with the chronological life-span theme of this series. The contributors collectively discuss some of the traditional concerns of life-span psychology: the dialectical nature of everyday cognition, individual differences, and contextual influences. Leading and concluding chapters provide overview, integration, and summary. In bringing together a wide array of age periods and points of view within the domain of everyday cognition, the editors hope that students and researchers in developmental psychology and cognitive science will find a useful cross-fertilization of ideas. A huge variety of theoretical perspectives is presented ranging from the position that everyday cognition and academic (laboratory) cognition are different manifestations of the same underlying processes to the position that the underlying processes are completely separate. Also of importance, a large assortment of research methods is illustrated including interviews, laboratory simulations, real-life observations and psychometric methods.

Author : Robin L. West,Jan D. Sinnott
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461391517

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Everyday Memory and Aging by Robin L. West,Jan D. Sinnott Pdf

Everyday Memory and Aging is a comprehensive handbook which touches virtually every aspect of current everyday memory research and methodology as they relate to aging. This book demonstrates that the results of divergent approaches to the study of everyday memory and aging frequently dovetail, and it widens significantly the scope of investigation and know- ledge in the field.

Author : Giovanni Vecchiato,Lewis L. Chuang,Christer Ahlström
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889761517

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Cognitive mechanisms for safe road traffic systems by Giovanni Vecchiato,Lewis L. Chuang,Christer Ahlström Pdf

Author : Roi Kadosh,Ann Dowker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191036019

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The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition by Roi Kadosh,Ann Dowker Pdf

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling). While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.

Author : Roi Kadosh,Ann Dowker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191036002

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The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition by Roi Kadosh,Ann Dowker Pdf

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling). While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.

Author : Manfred E. Streit,Uwe Mummert,Daniel Kiwit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642597831

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Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions by Manfred E. Streit,Uwe Mummert,Daniel Kiwit Pdf

Institutions are rules that are supported by various enforcement mechanisms. Cognition refers to the process of how men perceive and process information, whereas rationality refers to how these processes are modelled. Within institutional economics there is a growing scepticism towards extending the conventional economic frame of analysis to institutions. In particular, the notion of perfect rationality is increasingly questioned. At the same time human cognition has become a major field of research in psychology. This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change.

Author : Paul Verhaeghen,Christopher Hertzog
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199383078

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The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood by Paul Verhaeghen,Christopher Hertzog Pdf

Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and aging has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical findings emerging. This trend is consistent with the broader movement in psychology to consider social, motivational, and emotional influences on cognition and behavior. The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood provides the first overview of a new field of adult development that has emerged out of conceptualizations and research at the intersections between socioemotional development, social cognition, emotion, coping, and everyday problem solving. This field roundly rejects a universal deficit model of aging, highlighting instead the dynamic nature of socio-emotional development and the differentiation of individual trajectories of development as a function of variation in contextual and experiential influences. It emphasizes the need for a cross-level examination (from biology and neuroscience to cognitive and social psychology) of the determinants of emotional and socio-emotional behavior. This volume also serves as a tribute to the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields, whose thinking and empirical research contributed extensively to a life-span developmental view of emotion, problem solving, and social cognition. Its chapters cover multiple aspects of adulthood and aging, presenting developmental perspectives on emotion; antecedents and consequences of emotion in context; everyday problem solving; social cognition; goals and goal-related behaviors; and wisdom. The landmark volume in this new field, The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood is an important resource for cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists, as well as researchers and graduate students in the field of aging, emotion studies, and social psychology.

Author : Jesper Sørensen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0759110409

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A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sørensen Pdf

Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by things of their likeness. In this book S rensen embraces a cognitive perspective in order to investigate this long-established but controversial topic. Following a critique of the traditional approaches to magic, and basing his claims on classical ethnographic cases, the author explains magic's universality by examining a number of recurrent cognitive processes underlying its different manifestations. He focuses on how power is infused into the ritual practice; how representations of contagion and similarity can be used to connect otherwise distinct objects in order to manipulate one by the other; and how the performance of ritual prompts representations of magical actions as effective. Bringing these features together, the author proposes a cognitive theory of how people can represent magical rituals as purposeful actions and how ritual actions are integrated into more complex representations of events. This explanation, in turn, yields new insights into the constitutive role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religious ritual.

Author : Anh Nguyen-Xuan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119750475

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Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning by Anh Nguyen-Xuan Pdf

Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning presents experimental research works on the issue of knowledge acquisition in Cognitive Psychology. These research works – initiated by groups of researchers with academic backgrounds in Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence – explore learning mechanisms by viewing humans as information processing systems. Although the book is centered on research studies conducted in a laboratory, one chapter is dedicated to applied research studies, derived directly from the fundamental research works. Computer modeling of learning mechanisms is presented, based on the concept of cognitive architecture. Three important issues – the methodology, the achievements and the evolution – in the field of learning research are also examined.

Author : Ralph L. Piedmont
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004147409

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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion by Ralph L. Piedmont Pdf

Various articles are presented covering psychological, sociological and cross-cultural topics or relevance to religious/spiritual researchers and academics.

Author : Leonard W. Poon,David C. Rubin,Barbara A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521428602

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Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life by Leonard W. Poon,David C. Rubin,Barbara A. Wilson Pdf

The authors present relevant data that open up new directions for those studying cognitive aging.

Author : M. Cecil Smith,Thomas Pourchot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135686376

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Adult Learning and Development by M. Cecil Smith,Thomas Pourchot Pdf

A bridge between educational psychology and the fields of adult learning and development. For researchers, teachers, and graduate students in these fields.

Author : Stanley Woll
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135693794

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Everyday Thinking by Stanley Woll Pdf

This comprhnsve yet accssible txt brngs togethr key resrch and theory in a soc cog and applied cog psych to prvide a thorough grndg in these incrsingly poplar areas. Suitble txt for upper-level undergrads and a refrnce for graduate-level readers alike.

Author : Paco Calvo,Toni Gomila
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 008091487X

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Handbook of Cognitive Science by Paco Calvo,Toni Gomila Pdf

The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation to explain cognition. The handbook serves as a valuable companion for readers interested in foundational aspects of cognitive science, and neuroscience and the philosophy of mind. The handbook begins with an introduction to embodied cognitive science, and then breaks up the chapters into separate sections on conceptual issues, formal approaches, embodiment in perception and action, embodiment from an artificial perspective, embodied meaning, and emotion and consciousness. Contributors to the book represent research overviews from around the globe including the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

Author : J. Mark Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468455779

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Cognitive Approaches to Neuropsychology by J. Mark Williams Pdf

Since its early development, neuropsychology has examined the manner in which cognitive abilities are mediated by the brain. fudeed, all of neuropsy chology, and especially clinical neuropsychology, could be subsumed under this general investigation. However, a variety of factors impeded the close as sociation of neuropsychologists and cognitive/experimental psychologists. These factors were prominent influences in both camps, which kept the study of cognition away from a consideration of biological foundations and kept neuropsychology theoretically impoverished. In recent years, these factors have diminished and "cognitive neuropsychology" has become a popular term to describe the new movements to join the study of cognition with the study of brain function. The factors which kept these areas separate were manifestations of his torical trends and represent a social distance which largely happened by acci dent. The first and perhaps most important factor was that early investigators of cognition and brain function were not psychologists. Most were neurolo gists or otlier neuroscientists who were excellent observers of behavior fol lowing brain injury but had virtually no theoretical context of cognitive psy chology, which would allow them to expand and deepen their understanding of the behavior they were observing. As more psychologists who have such a context have observed the consequences of brain disorders, especially aphasia and amnesia, the study of them has become far more comprehensive as theo ries of language and memory derived from cognitive psychology have been incorporated into the investigations.