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This text presents a concise summation of the state of theoretical psychology. It explores topics such as narrative studies, language and discourse, perspectives on cultural psychology, identity and subjectivity, critical history and post-modern debates about constructivism vs. realism.
The text charts the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by children between the ages of one and a half and six have been recorded, creating a picture of the first steps in the development of a theory of mind.
Offers a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. In this title, one of the many interesting facts that emerge is that vision appeared long before there was any brain of significance. Perception therefore had to be direct awareness of forms, patterning, smells, and so on.
The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Levi-Strauss' Canonical Formula. The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.
Speaks of the centrality of imagination in the life of spirit. This book describes imagination as a bridge between the psyche and the spirit. It aims to unlock the healing power of our imagination.
Studies the way the brain's two hemispheres process image and language, as well as Jungian ways of understanding the unconscious through archetypes and the word association test. This text argues that emotional complexes facilitate the move of language across hemispheres.
The issue of the cognitive impenetrability or penetrability of perception lay dormant for a long period of time. This book addresses the issue of the cognitive penetrability of perception. It consists of eleven chapters, each one addressing the issue from a different perspective.
Cognitive psychology deals with information processing, and includes a variety of thinking processes including perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, categorisation, language, problem-solving, reasoning, and judgement.
Gives an in-depth treatment of the major issues, theories and findings in language understanding. This work introduces a representative selection of different research methods and the reader is encouraged, by means of activities and self-assessment questions, to become an active participant in cognitive psychology.
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