All critical thinking texts aim to make their students critical thinkers for life, but unlike other texts, THiNK was written from the framework of understanding that students approach their worlds from a place of opinions and feelings. Judith Boss begins by proposing three stages of critical thinking development: Dualism thinking things are either right or wrong; Relativism accepting that not everything is right/wrong, and subsequently thinking all opinions are equally valid, and finally, Commit...
Metacognition
This is a collection of classic and contemporary articles related to metacognition. The articles provide an overview of the variety of research in the field and serve as introductions to the relevant literature. The book covers eight major areas of metacognition: conceptual and methodological issues; privileged access and consciousness; theories; metacognitive monitoring; metacognitive control; developmental aspects; neuropsychological aspects; and inference and judgement under uncertainty.
This volume aims to provide the reader with a contemporary account of his- torical, diagnostic, treatment-management (including the individual and the service systems perspectives), and training dimensions of mentally ill/mentally retarded individuals from interdisciplinary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on current and evolving aspects of this topic. The broad scope of our approach is consistent with the concepts and practices that currently typify this topical area of clinical and research ac...
"Total Recall" reveals effective, entertaining methods to help you remember anything - easily and accurately. You'll discover how to remember what you read and hear, how to study, memorize a speech or script, plus:
Nationhood and Nationalism in France
Leading international historians examine the impact of nationhood and nationalism on French life. World-renowned contributors (many publishing for the first time in English), include Eugene Weber, Zeev Sternill, Pierre Sorlin and Jean-Claude Allain.
Family Environment and Intellectual Functioning: A Life-Span Perspective
by Elena L. Grigorenko
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org-"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)-challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific i...
Although semiotics has, in one guise or another, ftourished uninterruptedly since pre- Socratic times in the West, and important semiotic themes have emerged and devel- oped independently in both the Brahmanie and Buddhistic traditions, semiotics as an organized undertaking began to 100m only in the 1960s. Workshops materialized, with a perhaps surprising spontaneity, over much ofEurope-Eastern and Western- and in North America. Thereafter, others quickly surfaced almost everywhere over the lite...
Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Professionalisierung von Coaching. Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Betrachtung von Bildmaterialien im Einzelcoaching Selbstreflexions- und Entwicklungsprozesse foerdert. In dialogorientierten, leitfadengestutzten Experteninterviews berichten Coaches und Klienten uber ihre Erfahrungen. Die Analyse zeigt, dass bildhafte Interventionen den Zugang zu Emotionen und impliziten Prozessen sowie Selbstreflexions- und Selbstveranderungsprozesse wirksam unt...
Affect, Cognition and Change: Re-Modelling Depressive Thought
by Philip Barnard and John Teasdale
"A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our...
Creativity and Cultural Diversity
Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in Honor of Tarow Indow on His 70th Birthday
Music and Mental Imagery (SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music)
Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the various types of mental imagery associated with music. Four main parts cover an introduction to the different types of mental imagery associated with music such as auditory/musical, visual, kinaesthetic and multimodal mental imagery; a critical assessment of established and no...
Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen Hetherington Part A. Epistemology as scientific? 2. A problem about epistemic dependence Tim Oakley 3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailments Michaelis Michael 4. Epistemic bootstrapping Peter Forrest 5. More praise for Moore's proof Roger White 6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principle John Collins 7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibility David...
How do people perceive time? This book presents a wealth of contemporary and classical research, including some of the history and philosophy of time perception. Influential internal clock-based models of time perception receive an in-depth but non-technical introduction and discussion. The role of cognition and emotion in perceiving time is also explored, as well as questions derived from time experience in daily life, such as why time seems to pass more quickly in one situation rather than ano...
What is the design of the mind? What does that design imply for education? This comprehensive and engaging introduction to human learning and its applications to education focuses on these vital questions by exploring the theories of knowledge, complex cognition, and human intelligence, presenting a clear and interesting overview of the human mind through multiple theoretical lenses. The author delineates how the mind has a clear design, or architecture, that explains simple acts of memory and c...