Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

InhaltsangabePart One: Modulatory Processes Chapter 1 Consciousness Ilya Farber amd William P. Banks Chapter 2 Motivation Bill P. Godsil and Michael S. Fanselow Chapter 3 Affective Influences on Cognition: Mood Congruence, Mood Dependence, and Mood Effects on Processing Strategies Joseph P. Forgas and Eric Eich Part Two: Sensory Processes Chapter 4 Visual Perception: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations Michael Kubovy, William Epstein, and Sergei Gepshtein Chapter 5 Audition William A.Yost Chapter 6 Touch Roberta L. Klatzky and Susan J. Lederman Part Three: Perceptual Processes Chapter 7 Visual Object Processing Peter Ulric Tse and Stephen E. Palmer Chapter 8 Depth Perception and the Perception of Events Dennis R. Proffitt and Corrado Caudek Chapter 9 Speech Production and Perception Carol A. Fowler and Khalil Iskarous Part Four: Attention and Action Processes Chapter 10 Selective attention Dominique Lamy, Andrew B. Leber, and Howard E. Egeth Chapter 11 Action Selection Robert W. Proctor and Kim-Phuong L. Vu Chapter 12 Motor Control Herbert Heuer and Cristina Massen Part Five: Elementary Learning and Memory Processes Chapter 13 Conditioning and Learning Ralph R. Miller and Randolph C. Grace Chapter 14 Animal Cognition E. J. Capaldi and Ana P. G. Martins Chapter 15 Sensory and Working Memory James S. Nairne and Ian Neath Part Six: Complex Learning and Memory Processes Chapter 16 Semantic Memory and Priming Timothy P. McNamara Chapter 17 Episodic and Autobiographical Memory Elizabeth J. Marsh and Henry L. Roediger, III Chapter 18 Procedural Memory and Skill Acquisition Addie Johnson Part Seven: Language and Information Processing Chapter 19 Language Comprehension and Production Charles Clifton, Jr., Antje S. Meyer, Lee H. Wurm and Rebecca Treiman Chapter 20 Reading: Word Identification and Eye Movements Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, and Elizabeth R. Schotter Chapter 21 Text Comprehension and Discourse Processing Kirsten R. Butcher and Walter Kintsch Part Eight: Thought Processes Chapter 22 Concepts and Categorization Robert L. Goldstone, Alan Kersten, and Paulo F. Carvalho Chapter 23 Reasoning and Problem Solving Jacqueline P. Leighton and Robert J. Sternberg Chapter 24 Judgment and Decision Making Adele Diederich and Jerome R. Busemeyer Part Nine: Applications Chapter 25 Applied experimental psychology: Psychological experimentation addressing practical concerns Raymond S. Nickerson and Richard W. Pew

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