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The General Factor of Intelligence
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological, behavior-genetic, sociocultural, systems--and asked... more...
The Dynamical Systems Approach To Cognition
World Scientific Publishing Company 2003; US$ 98.80The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitive science. more...
Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence
Wiley 2005; US$ 136.95The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach to the WAIS?-III Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text from Alan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently provided the most comprehensive source of information on cognitive assessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated Third Edition provides... more...
International Handbook of Intelligence
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This is the first international handbook of intelligence published. It provides an international perspective on the nature of intelligence. It covers intelligence theory, research, and practice from all over the globe. Each author is an internationally recognized expert in the field of intelligence, and covers research from an entire region. more...
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 120.00Interdisciplinary Collaboration calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry, to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition in relation to the ecological contexts in which it... more...
Creativity
Wiley 2006; US$ 99.95How cognitive psychology explains human creativity Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the... more...
Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
CRC Press 2006; US$ 129.95Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved understanding of evolutionary issues is beneficial to those working towards the improvement of human health. Equally, an improved awareness of how human behavior influences health... more...
Human Behavior Learning and Transfer
CRC Press 2005; US$ 119.95The authors (both of the Chinese U. of Hong Kong) examine the modeling and transfer of human action and reaction behaviors. They apply machine learning techniques and statistical analysis towards abstracting models of human reaction behavior, contending that such models can be learnt efficiently to emulate complex human control behaviors in the fee more...
The Sphere of Attention
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Uses the empirical research to illustrate how attention is organized according to gestalt-phenomenological principles inside and outside the focus of attention. This book classifies how attention shifts, and argues that self-awareness, reflection, and even morality, are best thought of as dynamic transformations in the sphere of attention. more...
Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 175.00In attempting to understand and explain various behaviour, events, and phenomena in their field, psychologists have developed and enunciated an enormous number of ?best guesses? or theories concerning the phenomenon in question. Such theories involve speculations and statements that range on a potency continuum from ?strong? to ?weak?. The term theory,... more...









