Cognition and Neuropsychology: International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 1)

by Frensch; Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9781848720220
• ISBN10: 184872022X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-27
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Volume 1 of the Invited Lectures, which together present the main contributions from the 29 th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008.

Author Biography

Peter A. Frensch is Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II, at Humboldt-University, Berlin. He is also president-elect of the German Society of Psychology, and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science. His research is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms underlying different facets of learning. Ralf Schwarzer is professor of Psychology at the Freie University of Berlin, Germany. He has been President of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), and Divisions 8 of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP). His research is on stress, coping, social support, self-efficacy, and health behaviours.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
List of committees	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Perception, attention, and action	p. 1
Origins of executive attention	p. 3
Bridging between action representation and infant theory of mind	p. 15
The role of executive control in task switching	p. 35
Perception: A free-energy formulation	p. 49
Integrating what & how/where with instrumental and Pavlovian learning: A biologically based computational model	p. 71
Intrinsic multiperspectivity: On the architectural foundations of a distinctive mental capacity	p. 95
Social cognition	p. 117
Formal models of implicit measures of attitudes	p. 119
New perspectives on moral emotions: A neurobiological perspective	p. 137
The best-worst method for the study of preferences: Theory and application	p. 147
Learning, memory, and development	p. 159
Behavior genetics: Quasi-experimental studies of environmental processes	p. 161
Typical and atypical development: A commentary on the role of genes	p. 177
Early language development as related to the acquisition of reading	p. 193
The laws of learning are always in effect	p. 209
How midazolam can help us understand human memory: Three illustrations	p. 225
Fundamental general issues	p. 239
Who took the cog out of cognitive science? Mentalism in an era of anti-cognitivism	p. 241
Significance of phenomenal analyses in the reductive situation: Reciprocal role of the studies of potentiality and reality	p. 263
Author index	p. 273
Subject index	p. 283
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