Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

This user-friendly handbook, written by established experts, provides a practical update to all aspects of depression where changes are occurring. A timely book to facilitate the transition from evidence-based medicine to day-to-day clinical practice more...

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Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of. the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic. of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is. identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,. including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike. what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner. lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to. computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a. cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable. efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various. scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive. traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the. practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant. information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are. impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,. relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be. said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or. closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a. conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and. pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to. integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further. attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal. conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression. in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and. label led deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief. dynamics, more...

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This collection of essays forms a comprehensive overview of this crucial component of human cognitive function. more...

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This accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics. more...

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Recent government publications like "Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy" and "Science for all Americans" have given teachers a mandate for improving science education in America. What we know about how learners construct meaning--particularly in the natural sciences--has undergone a virtual revolution in the past 25 years. Teachers, as well as researchers, are now grappling with how to better teach science, as well as how to assess whether students are learning. Assessing Science Understanding is a companion volume to Teaching Science for Understanding, and explores how to assess whether learning has taken place. The book discusses a range of promising new and practical tools for assessment including concept maps, vee diagrams, clinical interviews, problem sets, performance-based assessments, computer-based methods, visual and observational testing, portfolios, explanatory models, and national examinations. more...

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