Originally published in 1989 this title provided a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the burgeoning discipline of human-computer interaction for students, academics, and those from industry who wished to know more about the subject. Assuming very little knowledge, the book provides an overview of the diverse research areas that were at the time only gradually building into a coherent and well-structured field. It aims to explain the underlying causes of the cognitive, social and organizational problems typically encountered when computer systems are introduced. It is clear and...
Originally published in 1989 this title provided a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the burgeoning discipline of human-computer interac...
Originally published in 1982, this was an extensive and up-to-date review of research into the psychology of deductive reasoning, Jonathan Evans presents an alternative theoretical framework to the rationalist approach which had dominated much of the published work in this field at the time. The review falls into three sections. The first is concerned with elementary reasoning tasks, in which response latency is the prime measure of interest. The second and third sections are concerned with syllogistic and propositional reasoning respectively, in which interest has focused on the explanation...
Originally published in 1982, this was an extensive and up-to-date review of research into the psychology of deductive reasoning, Jonathan Evans prese...
The subject of thinking is the oldest in the whole science of psychology, going back to well before the separation of the disciplines of philosophy and psychology. Originally published in 1983, this collection of up-to-date critical essays about thinking - with particular emphasis on reasoning - is written from the perspective of psychologists who are themselves actively engaged in research into the nature of human thought. The editor's introduction identifies the major issues which have traditionally concerned students of human thought, and provides an historical background. It describes...
The subject of thinking is the oldest in the whole science of psychology, going back to well before the separation of the disciplines of philosophy an...
Terry Beehr examines the effects of stress in the workplace and describes methods that can be used to alleviate the problem, both at the individual and organisational level. In addition, he illustrates the book with many examples from field research over the his 20 years of experience in studying the workplace.
Terry Beehr examines the effects of stress in the workplace and describes methods that can be used to alleviate the problem, both at the individual an...
From its foundation in the 1950s by George Kelly, Personal Construct Psychology continued to grow, both as a movement among psychologists and then in industry, education, government and commerce. Originally published in 1985 this title offers a compendium of elaborations and new conversational uses for Kelly s repertory grid technique. The authors have dramatically transformed the grid from a static measuring instrument to a dynamic tool for a personal exploration of the learning process itself. This grid-based Reflective Learning Technology enables individuals, pairs, groups and...
From its foundation in the 1950s by George Kelly, Personal Construct Psychology continued to grow, both as a movement among psychologists and then ...
How Can You Enhance Your Potential for Change and Personal Growth?
Most of us accept that education does not meet the needs of learners today, or their employers. This mismatch is a key reason why a high level of demotivated youth, as well as workers and managers remain unable to develop themselves. They have been "other-organised" and are unprepared for the world of work and the challenges of life.
First published in 1991, this title offers a radical approach to human learning and personal change. Based on the reflective procedures...
How Can You Improve Your Learning Capabilites?
How Can You Enhance Your Potential for Change and Personal Growth?
It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However, it was many years before there began quests of a different kind the investigation of behaviour, personality, attitude and ability among Africa s people. Originally published in 1975, this book is an account of that work: the first explorations in Africa of psychology.
In an exhaustive and well-documented report the author, a psychologist who had himself done research in Nigeria, Uganda and who had lectured at Makerere University, drew together the main...
It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However, it was many years...
Wilhelm Wundt is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. The first person to ever call himself a Psychologist, he is also widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology," having established the first laboratory in the world dedicated to psychological research. This paved the way for psychology as an independent field of study. A prolific writer, this title contains 30 lectures on human and animal psychology given in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This edition was originally published in 1912, a translation of the second German edition, the...
Wilhelm Wundt is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. The first person to ever call himself a Psychologist, he is also ...
Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud s earliest followers. A prolific writer, this book originally published in 1921, was considered by the translator the best general introduction of its author to the English public, containing as is does many of his central ideas. Although the author had already fallen out with him by this time, in the preface to this book, he acknowledges Freud s significance to the field and says he regards his Psycho-Analysis as being a step towards a new psycho-therapy .
Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud s earliest followers. A prolific writer, this book originally published ...
Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the author s favourite of his own work. In the preface he says: It was written in the beautiful years in which the first rays of analytic psychognosis penetrated the darkness of the human soul. Covering a variety of topics he takes a psychoanalytic look into "The Depths of the Soul."
Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the ...
