Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by a virus named Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The disease is characterized by...

When we learn new and complex materials, our cognitive processing capabilities are usually severely reduced due to limited working memory capacity....

The research projects presented in this book are the most recent studies of intelligence. They will improve our understanding of the human's abilit...

Unauthorised disclosures of classified intelligence are seen as doing significant damage to U.S. security. However, if intelligence is not made ava...

This is the second edition of an earlier work that looks at current threats to the United States. The US under a new presidential administration is...

No single method has proven effective in differentiating between English learner students who have difficulty acquiring language skills and those w...

In the first chapter, Luis Garra and Santiago Barajas review the use of mindfulness in psychotic disorders, from the early questioning of the possi...

Mindfulness is an ineffable practice where we are taken on a mind-body journey of discovery into our inner world. Mindfulness helps us to be curio...

Mindfulness is an ineffable practice where we are taken on a mind-body journey of discovery into our inner world. Mindfulness helps us to be curiou...

In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behaviour (Geen, 1995). Motivation is a temporal and dy...

This book is a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. One of the many interesting facts emerging from this study is that vision appeared long ...

In this book the authors present current developments in the study of cognitive systems research. Topics discussed in this compilation include the ...

New Developments In Learning Research

Recent years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance and relevance of creativity in social and psychological life. This has led to...

Cognitive science is most simply defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence. It is an interdisciplinary study drawing from r...

The capability to reason in a world full of uncertainties, vagueness and ignorance is what distinguishes humans. This ability to argument in a part...

Since the turn of the century the phenomenon of learning has received increasingly more attention. Within the theoretical field, a variety of theor...

What does the place of information within the cosmos have to do with the life of any one person or with the nature of right and wrong? It changes e...

This new book presents new and important research in attitudes and social cognition and addresses those domains of social behavior in which cogniti...

Life is a series of coping with a variety of problems. Major or minor problems arise for us all the time, and our life is filled with them. Thus, w...

Creativity is a property of a finished idea or product. An idea is creative if it is both new and adaptive. Creative ideas are needed in a world th...

Cognitive psychologists have been interested in individual differences in complex cognitive processes and intelligence since the cognitive revoluti...

This book compiles a series of chapters on theoretical, methodological, and practical advances in problem solving research that aim at identifying ...

Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in ...

This book explores the psycho-social and cognitive development of Greek Cypriot University students. Taking Perry’s theory of ethical and intellect...

How are the process of learning in all its complexity and the claim of surplus thinking to be understood and described?

Cognitive disorders are defined as those in which a limitation of cognitive functioning is the main feature. They include: amnestic disorders, Hunt...

Albert Bandura's introduction of social cognitive theory moved the field of social psychology from viewing people as primarily reacting to events t...

We live at the dawn of a revolution in human interrelatedness. Technological advancements in communication demand interrelatedness not only with fa...

This book describes some of the powerful metaphors that have developed over the past two decades about the workings of our minds including cognitiv...

Cognitive psychology is concerned with several mental processes, including those involved in perception, attention, learning, memory, problem solvi...

This book explores the symbiotic relationship between culture and creativity, particularly exploring how resources and cultural values within a soc...

Human behavior is of fundamental importance not only to the individual, but to the community and all of humanity. Now that humans have acquired the...

The idea that such pervasive and ever-growing immersion in virtual play affects consciousness seems obvious and is the focus of this volume. These ...

In psychology, visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eyes. The resulting perception is also kno...

Many events in our daily lives require that we allocate attentional resources towards relevant information in the environment. However, we are cons...

Working memory is the executive and attentional aspect of cognition which operates on the data held in short-term memory (which may be thought of a...