Originally published in 1973, this book contains the 1971 William James Lectures at Harvard, the first by that name to be given by a British psychologist. In addition, there are reprints of four shorter lectures which had not been easily available before. Together the resulting collection gave a bro..
Paul Kline's book provides a modern, readable introduction to the psychometry of intelligence. It explains factor analysis and the construction of intelligence tests and shows how the resulting factors provide a picture of human abilities...
Knowledge, Concepts and Categories brings together an overview of recent research on concepts and knowledge that abstracts across a variety of specific fields of cognitive psychology...
The role of social context in the various stages of learning to read and write is an important key to understanding literacy, and is the chief organizing theme of this book. This work presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the research and theoretical work in the field...
This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory and pays tribute to the work of Lars-Göran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory...
How do people reason? How do peoples' reasoning strategies differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people acquire, select and apply...