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Recent Events in the Psychology of Aging documents the successful integration of aging into the mainstream of psychology. Leading psychologists present overviews of the key issues and research findings on mainstream topics. These include cognitive neuroscience, visual attention, learning, memory and cognition, as well as personality and happiness. The intersection of aging content with mainstream psychology is also prominent in the areas of emotions, personality, and social psychology as seen in the chapters on subjective well-being, emotional development, self-esteem and personality trajectories.
The seven chapters of this book offer information on such topics as: the seven sins of memory, categorizing the common breakdowns of memory in everyday life and the special breakdown of sins that increase with aging; problems with attention and learning; and offers answers to questions such as do emotions get blunted with age; do older people focus more on positive feelings; and the age old question of whether older people are happier than younger people is given in the chapter on the evolving concept of subjective well-being and the multifaceted nature of happiness. Questions about what occurs to one's self-esteem and personality are also masterfully discussed and the answers may be surprising. The concluding seventh chapter provides a cultural lens on the biopsychosocial study of aging.
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Psychology by Attention
The Psychology of Attention
Harold E. Pashler
"The scholarship which pervades this text is magnificent. More than any source that I know of, it provides a well- integrated view of the many approaches taken to assess the classic early-selection/late-selection debate."
-- Joel S. Warm, University of Cincinnati
In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology of Attention presents a systematic review of the main lines of research on attention; the topics range from perception of threshold stimuli to memory storage and decision making. The book develops empirical generalizations about the major issues and suggests possible underlying theoretical principles.
Pashler argues that widely assumed notions of processing resources and automaticity are of limited value in understanding human information processing. He proposes a central bottleneck for decision making and memory retrieval, and describes evidence that distinguishes this limitation from perceptual limitations and limited-capacity short-term memory.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
I Attention and Perception
2 Selective Attention
3 Divided Attention
4 Attentional Set
5 Capacity and Selection: Theorizing about Attention
II Attention, Memory, and Action
6 Central Processing Limitations in Sensorimotor Tasks
7 Attention and Memory
8 Automaticity, Effort, and Control
Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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A Student's Guide to Psychology
Students entering college need to be reminded that from the moment they enter they must be critical readers, listeners and thinkers. Critical thinking skills are of particular importance in a field such as psychology that is relatively new as an independent field of experimental science. The topics of study and the methods used to study them are growing and developing. This little guide offers a beginning perspective on the study of psychology its history and the issues that have shaped it.
Author Daniel N. Robinson touches on philosophical psychology, psychology as science, including Darwinian evolutionary theory, behaviorism, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience, Freud and depth psychology, social psychology, and human development. Where appropriate, short biographies of noted figures mentioned in the text are included in the book. These include Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, John Stuart Mill, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Charles Darwin, Ivan Pavlov, John B, Watson, B.F. Skinner, and Sigmund Freud. An annotated list of further suggested reading is also provided.
This guide is billed as "an indispensable orientation to this [psychology] culturally influential field." I agree that those planning on taking psychology courses at college should prepare by reading this guide and by honing their critical thinking skills.
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Handbook of Psychology, 12 Volume Set
Handbook of Psychology, 12 Volume Set
Product Description:
• First of its kind, sure to set the standard for future psychology reference works.
• Provides psychologists, practitioners, researchers, and students with complete and up-to-date information on the field of psychology.
• Twelve volumes cover all of the fundamental areas of knowledge in the field.
"This exhaustively researched work fills a visible gap in the literature of psychology." -- Library Journal, April 2003
Unlike an encyclopedia, the volumes in this set can stand alone as state-of-the-field handbooks. Together they cover both the science and the practice of psychology broadly and in depth. Each volume has its own editor(s) and contains some two dozen articles by experts who write well for an audience intended to include graduate students in behavioral science, professional psychologists who need a refresher course in their own specialty and/or an introduction to others, and educated readers outside of psychology who want to delve into it. Organized with great care, the set has a logical integrity unified by two threads: the history and evolution of each topic and the importance of research. Accordingly, the first two volumes treat history and research methods. The next five present content areas, and the last five are devoted to applied psychology. Volume 1 treats the history of the topics in the next 11 volumes and also offers 15 articles on such issues as intelligence, emotion, personality, women and gender, undergraduate education, and ethnic minorities. Editor-in-Chief Weiner (psychology, Univ. of South Florida) writes the essay on assessment and the lead ar ticle in Volume 10, breathing life into a typically dry corpus. The references are remarkably current (many have appeared since 2000), and controversy pops up; e.g., the essay on expanding roles for psychologists admits that some are "scoundrels for hire," while others are great benefactors.
A few quibbles: though hypnosis is mentioned in Volumes 1 and 9 (though not in "Pain"), it also belongs in Volumes 4, 8, and 11. Astonishingly, entries for Jung and Rank are missing from Volume 8. Some topics are fragmented: Volume 9 has "Obesity," WHILE "eating Disorders" is in Volume 8. There is neither an overall index for the set nor any journals lists or web site references, though computer and Internet technology do come up. Despite these drawbacks, this is a magnificent achievement, a great readable reference that proves the maturity and vitality of a subject of interest to almost everyone. Libraries that already have the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology are well served, but this set is still essential for academic and large general systems. Those that can afford it will want the entire set because big topics overlap or are divided among several volumes with different perspectives. Single volumes will enrich collections serving educators (Vol. 7), health professionals (Vol. 9), lawyers and courts (Vol. 11), and organizations (Vol. 12), while lay readers will probably browse most in Volumes 1, 5 ("persuasion," "close relationships," and "prejudice"), and 9. – E. James Liberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. Of Medicine, Washington, DC (Library Journal, March 15, 2003)
"This exhaustively researched work fills a visible gap in the literature of psychology." (Library Journal, April 2003)
• Hardcover: 7800 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471176699
• ISBN-13: 978-0471176695
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