Handbook of Psychology, Experimental Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780470649930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 784 str.

Irving B Weiner

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Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

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Handbook of Psychology Preface xi

Irving B. Weiner

Volume Preface xiii
Alice F. Healy and Robert W. Proctor

Contributors xvii

I MODULATORY PROCESSES 1

1 CONSCIOUSNESS 3
Ilya Farber and William P. Banks

2 MOTIVATION 32
Bill P. Godsil and Michael S. Fanselow

3 AFFECTIVE INFLUENCES ON COGNITION: MOOD CONGRUENCE, MOOD DEPENDENCE, AND MOOD EFFECTS ON PROCESSING STRATEGIES 61
Joseph P. Forgas and Eric Eich

II SENSORY PROCESSES 83

4 VISUAL PERCEPTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 85
Michael Kubovy, William Epstein, and Sergei Gepshtein

5 AUDITION 120
William A. Yost

6 TOUCH 152
Roberta L. Klatzky and Susan J. Lederman

III PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES 179

7 VISUAL OBJECT PROCESSING 181
Peter Ulric Tse and Stephen E. Palmer

8 DEPTH PERCEPTION AND THE PERCEPTION OF EVENTS 212
Dennis R. Proffitt and Corrado Caudek

9 SPEECH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION 236
Carol A. Fowler and Khalil Iskarous

IV ATTENTION AND ACTION PROCESSES 265

10 SELECTIVE ATTENTION 267
Dominique Lamy, Andrew B. Leber, and Howard E. Egeth

11 ACTION SELECTION 295
Robert W. Proctor and Kim–Phuong L. Vu

12 MOTOR CONTROL 320
Herbert Heuer and Cristina Massen

V ELEMENTARY LEARNING AND MEMORY PROCESSES 355

13 CONDITIONING AND LEARNING 357
Ralph R. Miller and Randolph C. Grace

14 ANIMAL COGNITION 393
E. J. Capaldi and Ana P. G. Martins

15 SENSORY AND WORKING MEMORY 419
James S. Nairne and Ian Neath

VI COMPLEX LEARNING AND MEMORY PROCESSES 447

16 SEMANTIC MEMORY AND PRIMING 449
Timothy P. McNamara

17 EPISODIC AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY 472
Elizabeth J. Marsh and Henry L. Roediger, III

18 PROCEDURAL MEMORY AND SKILL ACQUISITION 495
Addie Johnson

VII LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING 521

19 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION 523
Charles Clifton, Jr., Antje S. Meyer, Lee H. Wurm, and Rebecca Treiman

20 READING: WORD IDENTIFICATION AND EYE MOVEMENTS 548
Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, and Elizabeth R. Schotter

21 TEXT COMPREHENSION AND DISCOURSE PROCESSING 578
Kirsten R. Butcher and Walter Kintsch

VIII THOUGHT PROCESSES 605

22 CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIZATION 607
Robert L. Goldstone, Alan Kersten, and Paulo F. Carvalho

23 REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING 631
Jacqueline P. Leighton and Robert J. Sternberg

24 JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING 660
Adele Diederich and Jerome R. Busemeyer

IX APPLICATIONS 685

25 APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTATION ADDRESSING PRACTICAL CONCERNS 687
Raymond S. Nickerson and Richard W. Pew

Author Index 711

Subject Index 749