Cognitive Psychology Arena

Learning Through Problem Solving

A Special Double Issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences

• Edited by Cindy E. Hmelo, Susan M. Williams

The articles in this special issue represent the findings of researchers working in classroom settings to explore key issues in learning through problem solving. Although...

Published January 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Ideas, Issues, and Applications

• Edited by Charles Crawford, Dennis L. Krebs

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in ancestral human environments, the nature of psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to deal...

Published December 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Constructive Knowledge Acquisition

A Computational Model and Experimental Evaluation

• By Franz Schmalhofer

A cognitive psychology which becomes increasingly specialized requires a special effort in order to avoid a fragmentation into several controversial issues that are independently discussed...

Published November 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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The Structure of Psychological Common Sense

• By Jan Smedslund

Psychologic is a formal system and relationship within which psychological processes are defined. The language people ordinarily use to formulate, think, and talk about psychological...

Published October 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Human Factors in Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Edited by Woodrow Barfield, Thomas A. Dingus

The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Program is a cooperative effort by government, private industry, and academia to apply advanced technology to the task of resolving...

Published October 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Experienced Cognition

• By Richard A. Carlson

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins with the observation...

Published September 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work

Beyond the Great Divide

• Edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, William Turner, Les Gasser, Geoffrey Bowker

This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of...

Published September 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

A Brief Edition of Thought & Knowledge

• By Diane F. Halpern

Consider that many of the people who are alive today will be working at jobs that do not currently exist and that the explosion of...

Published September 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Introduction to Memory Development During Childhood and Adolescence

• By Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley

Memory development has been a central topic in developmental psychology for the past 30 years. This volume summarizes the research achievements during that era and...

Published August 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• Edited by Pat Langley, Michael G. Shafto

This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Papers have been loosely grouped...

Published August 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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