Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

When can we trust what we believe--that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"--and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs,...

We've all witnessed this moment: a dog, a cat, or another animal reacting to its own reflection in the mirror, treating it as another animal to be played with or confronted. As human beings, we take self-recognition for granted, but this seemingly simple ability represents one of the most complex mysteries of neuroscience. The Face in the Mirror takes readers on a lively tour of the neurological, anthropological, and psychological roots of self-recognition -- from the intricate network in the brain that enables higher primates to recognize their image to complex, self-related...

• Have you ever thought: "I'd better not try, I could be embarrassed"?
• Does it bother you to see someone you know get ahead -- of you?
• Have you ever thought: "Its my responsibility to make sure my loved ones are happy"?
• Is your motto "Anything worth doing must be done absolutely right"?
• Do you tend to qualify your responses?
• That is, do you find yourself saying: "Yes, its good, but..."?
• Have you ever concluded: "Everybody thinks I messed up"?
• Have you ever thought: "I just can't lose.
• Let's face it,...

In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom.

With a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust our unconscious, or "undermind," psychologist Guy Claxton makes an appeal...

At last, an 'intelligent' dream dictionary - by an internationally renowned dream expert No one-size-fits-all dream formulas here: Gayle Delaney provides simple, personalized tools to uncover the unique meaning in 'your' dreams.

Ever wake

• Discusses the concepts of category learning, prototypes, prospective memory, event memory, memory models, and musical prosody
• Volume 46 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
• An...

Thinking and Problem-Solving presents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of literature on cognition, reasoning, intelligence, and other formative areas specific to this field. Written for advanced undergraduates, researchers, and academics, this volume is a necessary reference for beginning and established investigators in cognitive and educational psychology.

Thinking and Problem-Solving provides insight into questions such as: how do people solve complex problems in mathematics and everyday life? How do we generate new ideas? How do we piece together clues to...

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness is made up of five investigations of the greatest mysteries of the brain, including:
-how amputees feel pain in limbs they no longer have, which introduces the great revolution of our age: neuroscience
-the way...