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Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controversial, when in fact, the field of intelligence holds some of psychology's best-replicated findings.
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Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-03-26
Format(s) : PDF
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What is intelligence? How did it begin and evolve to human intelligence? Does a high level of biological intelligence require a complex brain? Can man-made machines be truly intelligent? Is AI fundamentally different from human intelligence? In Birth of Intelligence,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-02-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and scientific opinion on the subject has been divided. Charles Darwin believed animals and humans share a common core of fear, anger, and affection. Today most researchers agree that animals experience...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-02-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Emotion in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder provides an up-to-date review of the empirical research on the relevance of emotions, such as fear, anxiety, shame, guilt, and disgust to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It also covers emerging research on the...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2020-01-31
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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This monograph presents a clear account of when and how attentional processes can shape perceptual experience.This argument is based on the prediction-error minimization model of the mind. The author believes that the topic of attention should take a more central role...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-12-10
Format(s) : PDF
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We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-12-05
Format(s) : ePub
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The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood. Key to this quest is trying to fathom our inner mental states--our hopes, plans, wants, thoughts, and emotions. Scientists deem this...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-12-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robotics focuses on the issues that come to bear when humans interact and collaborate with robots. The book dives deeply into critical factors that impact how individuals interact with...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2019-11-30
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Advanced Casebook of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: Conceptualizations and Treatment presents a synthesis of the emerging data across clinical phenomenology, assessment, psychological therapies and biologically-oriented therapies regarding obsessive...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2019-11-09
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Retrain your thinking and your life with these simple, scientifically proven techniques! Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT for short, is often cited as the gold standard of psychotherapy. Its techniques allow you to identify the negative thought processes that hold...
Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2019-11-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important and innovative changes in theories and concepts. Gathering revised contributions presented at the international...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-24
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It analyzes the relation between grammatically defined roles such as agent and patient (semantic roles), and elaborate thematic relations (ETRs)...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 57 in the series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors who discuss Peer mentoring and the...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2019-10-23
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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The presented book is a direct sequel to the previous collections of studies “The Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience - Introduction” (2017) and “The Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience – Selected Problems” (2019), and represents the culmination of the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2019-10-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In the book, we shall attempt to focus attention on two basic factors of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. The first is the presentation of the fundamental historical concepts within the aesthetics of German idealism with some crucial concepts, ideas and...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2019-10-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity that is...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-10-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This highly practical book will guide students through the different levels of research within CBT by addressing the general principles, how to understand statistics and tackling with general principles. It also highlights how to critically engage with, interpret and...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2019-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Human beings are competitive. We want to know who is the strongest, who is the richest, and who is the cleverest of all. Some situations, like ranking people based on height, can be ranked in objective ways. However, many "Top Ten" lists are based on subjective...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-09-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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