Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain

Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain

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  • Author: Sergio Della Sala
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198568762
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 550

Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Does the size of the brain matter? Can we communicate with the dead? This book presents a survey of common myths about the mind & brain. It exposes the truth behind these beliefs, how they are perpetuated, why people believe them, & why they might even exist in the first place.


50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

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  • Author: Scott O. Lilienfeld
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1444360744
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 358

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', and 'handwriting reveals your personality' Provides a 'mythbusting kit' for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike


A Very Short Tour of the Mind

A Very Short Tour of the Mind

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  • Author: Michael C. Corballis
  • Publisher: ABRAMS
  • ISBN: 1468315463
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 73

“Thoroughly enjoyable” essays from a cognitive neuroscientist, filled with surprising facts (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that the human mind enjoys. It is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. If you’ve ever wondered why your dog can remember where it buried its bone but you can’t find your keys, or whether it’s true that we use only ten percent of our brainpower, this concise book offers some answers—and introduces us to what science has learned about the intricacies of the human brain over the last fifty years. Leading us through behavioral experiments and neuroscience, cognitive theory and Darwinian evolution, Michael Corballis punctures a few hot-air balloons, and explains just what we know—and don’t know—about our own minds. “Poses questions we wouldn’t have thought to ask and then answers them with clarity and wit.” —American Scientist


Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

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  • Author: Laura E. Levine
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1483372146
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1610

This exciting chronological introduction to child development employs the lauded active learning approach of Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch’s successful topical text, inviting students to forge a personal connection to the latest topics shaping the field, including neuroscience, diversity, culture, play, and media. Using innovative pedagogy, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach reveals a wide range of real-world applications for research and theory, creating an engaging learning experience that equips students with tools they can use long after the class ends.


Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action

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  • Author: Paul Henne
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350266345
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

What is self-control? Does a person need to be conscious to act? Are delusions always irrational? Questions such as these are fundamental for investigations into action and rationality, as well as how we assign responsibility for wrongdoing and assess clinical symptoms. Bridging the gap between philosophy and psychology, this interdisciplinary collection showcases how empirical research informs and enriches core questions in the philosophy of action. Exploring issues such as truth, moral judgement, agency, consciousness and cognitive control, chapters offer an overview of the current state of research, present new empirical findings and identify where future experimental work can further advance the frontier between philosophy and psychology. This is an essential resource for anyone looking to better understand how science and philosophy can meaningfully inform our knowledge of human agency.


Popular Myths about Memory

Popular Myths about Memory

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  • Author: Brian H. Bornstein
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 0739192191
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 335

Misconceptions about memory phenomena often go hand-in-hand with popular misrepresentations of its function in media. In Popular Myths about Memory, Brian H. Bornstein examines how the representation of memory in novels, movies, and television shows often clashes with scientific research. Bornstein discusses the consequences of these myths on the popular understanding of memory and its functions. Depictions of amnesia, eyewitness accounts, and superior memory are just a few of the processes explored and debunked. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, literary studies, and communication studies.


Child Development

Child Development

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  • Author: Laura E. Levine
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1452216797
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 729

This work includes challenging misconceptions, true/false or multiple choice tests, activities with children and adolescents, 'The journey of research' which introduces students to the process of research, and much more.


Demystifying Bilingualism

Demystifying Bilingualism

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  • Author: Silke Jansen
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030870634
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 381

This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in the brain using metaphors of struggle, conflict and competition. However, an ideological shift from nationalist and monolingual ideologies to the celebration of bilingualism under multicultural and neoliberal ideologies in the course of the 20th century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.


Forgetting

Forgetting

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  • Author: Sergio Della Sala
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 113697086X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 538

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 volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the book discuss the history of forgetting, its theories and accounts, the difference between short-term and long-term forgetting as well as the relevance of forgetting within each of the numerous components of memory taxonomy. The central part summarizes and discusses what we have learned about forgetting from animal work, from computational modeling, and from neuroimaging. Further chapters discuss pathological forgetting in patients with amnesia and epilepsy, as well as psychogenic forgetting. The book concludes by focusing on the difference between forgetting of autobiographical memories versus collective memory forgetting. This book is the first to address the issue of forgetting from an interdisciplinary point of view, but with a particular emphasis on psychology. The book is scientific and yet accessible in tone, and as such is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology and related subjects, such as science and neuroscience.


Theories of Human Learning

Theories of Human Learning

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  • Author: Guy R. Lefrançois
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108484638
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 571

Mrs Gribbin invites you to join her as she explores the changing landscape of learning theories and their implications.