Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues. To ensure a balanced overview, references are made to many books, review articles, and research reports that present opposing positions.…
Paperback – 2016-06-14
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts. By using a trial-by-trial analysis, the authors are able to identify the exact trial on which the new strategy is first…
Paperback – 2016-05-26
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not…
Paperback – 2014-08-12
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong…
Paperback – 2013-08-28
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes…
Paperback – 1997-03-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
There are few books devoted to the topic of brain plasticity and behavior. Most previous works that cover topics related to brain plasticity do not include extensive discussions of behavior. The first to try to address the relationship between recovery from brain damage and changes in the brain…
Hardback – 1995-10-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists,…
Hardback – 1992-10-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number of figures, has been preserved in order to keep the monograph faithful to the concept…
Hardback – 1992-07-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception -- reviewing current brain research and showing how several lines of inquiry have been converging to produce a paradigm shift…
Hardback – 1991-06-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
Behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, and Cognitivism in Learning Theory presents the insights and opinions of Abram Amsel -- a comprehensive viewpoint that encompasses more than 40 years of research work and theorizing -- on the "cognitive revolution" in psychology and the behavioral sciences as it…
Paperback – 1988-11-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
In presenting an innovative theory of sex differences in the social context, this volume applies social-role theory and meta-analytic techniques to research in aggression, social influence, helping, nonverbal, and group behavior. Eagly's findings show that gender stereotypic behavior results from…
Hardback – 1987-04-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1984-08-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1983-06-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1982-02-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series
First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1978-07-01
Psychology Press
Distinguished Lecture Series