Название: Handbook of Pediatric Psychology in School Settings
Автор: Ronald T. Brown
Издательство: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 842
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

Brown (Medical U. of South Carolina) introduces this handbook's 38 chapters by explaining how provision of mental health care to youth has paralleled changes in other areas of health care. For example, schools must face the fact that 10-15 percent of US school children have a chronic medical condition that may be influenced by lifestyle. Contributors discuss working with schools to prevent and manage health problems and their psychological sequela; early identification and intervention efforts; and conditions encountered in school settings from asthma to AIDS. Other topics addressed include peer relations, professional training, and ethical and legal issues.

Название: Mechanical Trading Systems: Pairing Trader Psychology with Technical Analysis
Автор: Richard L. Weissman
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 241
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

A wide variety of flexible trading systems that combine sophisticated technical analysis with trading psychology theory.Mechanical Trading Systems examines the development process for choosing and using mechanical trading systems in conjunction with trader psychology. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of mechanical trading systems the dangers in system development and how to avoid them the optimal methods for back-testing trading systems position sizing and other risk quantification tools and methods of improving rates of return on investments without significantly increasing risk. Most importantly, through a detailed examination of various types of unsuccessful trader personality traits (e.g., fearfulness, greed, and impatience), the book recommends different types of trading systems for a diverse array of trader types.Richard L. Weissman (Port Richey, FL) has seventeen years experience as a trader and developer of trading systems. He currently provides independent consultation an d training services to traders and risk management professionals in the areas of technical analysis, risk management, and trader psychology.

Название: Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and Persuasion
Автор: L.J. Shrum
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 378
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Social science and marketing scholars examine the convergence between entertainment media's narrative and rhetoric messages and their impact on attitudes and behavior. In introducing 18 papers based on the 2002 Annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference. Shrum (marketing, U. of Texas-San Antonio) notes that media effects depend on such variables as individual differences in usage. Contributors present empirical studies and theory relating to such factors as subliminal messages, product placement, lack of exposure to diversity, and fictional vs. factual communication processing.

Название: Psychomythics: Sources of Artifacts and Misconceptions in Scientific Psychology
Автор: William R. Uttal
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 219
Размер: 12 MB
Язык: English

Uttal has written an important book that deserves to be read. He raises many interesting questions and identifies in a transparent manner a host of possible methodological and conceptual pitfalls of psychological research, of which any cognitive scientist should be aware. It invites researchers to be ever critical on one's background assumptions and choice of research methods.

Название: Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. A-H
Автор: Spielberger C.
Издательство: Elsevier
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 696
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application.Also available online via ScienceDirect featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com.

Название: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
Автор: Thomas G. Plante
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 651
Размер: 9 MB
Язык: English

Overviews the field of clinical psychology from an integrative biopsychosocial perspective. Demonstrates the activities, role, and responsibilities of clinical psychologists through actual case material, and reviews the history, scientific underpinnings, and theoretical orientations of the field. Looks at contemporary issues in the field, and provides a road map for those interested in pursuing careers. Assumes previous undergraduate courses in introductory and abnormal psychology.

Название: Cognitive Vision: Psychology of Learning and Motivation
Автор: David Irwin, Brian H. Ross
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 330
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

se of visual information is used to augment our knowledge, decide on our actions, and keep track of our environment. Even with eyes closed, people can remember visual and spatial representations, manipulate them, and make decisions about them. The chapters in Volume 42 of Psychology of Learning and Motivation discuss the ways cognition interacts with visual processes and visual representations, with coverage of figure-ground assignment, spatial and visual working memory, object identification and visual search, spatial navigation, and visual attention.

Название: Mind design II: philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence
Автор: John Haugeland
Издательство: MIT Press
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 439
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how it works). Unlike traditional empirical psychology, it is more oriented toward the "how" than the "what. An experiment in mind design is more likely to be an attempt to build something and make it work - as in artificial intelligence - than to observe or analyze what already exists. Mind design is psychology by reverse engineering.

Название: Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology
Автор: Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Cary L. Cooper
Издательство: Edward Elgar
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 716
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

The rapid and sweeping changes in the economy, technology, work practices and family structures mean that organizational health psychology has never been so essential for understanding stress in the workplace. This timely Research Companion is essential reading to advance the understanding of healthy behaviors within working environments and to identify problems which can be the cause of illness.

Название: Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject: Selected Writings of Klaus Holzkamp
Автор: Klaus Holzkamp, Ernst Schraube, Ute Osterkamp, Tod Sloan, Andrew Boreham
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 376
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Klaus Holzkamp (1927-1995) was the founder of German Critical Psychology working on the fundamental renewal of academic psychology. His ideas inspired generations of young scholars discontent with the socio-political function of psychology and the human sciences. Although his approach is discussed internationally, most of his work is not yet available in English. This selection of Holzkamp's writings provides an introduction to his Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject.In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, Holzkamp's psychological approach centers on 'human agency' as the individuals' practical influence over the conditions of their lives. Instead of seeking to optimize the individual's adjustment to prevailing conditions, the issue here is the justifiability of such an adjustment as well as the danger of reproducing the conditions of one's own powerlessness by adopting ruling self-evidences. 'Social self-understanding' on the societal reality of individual experience and action plays a key role both as the epistemic interest and method of research.