Handbook of Psychology
Volume 4: Experimental Psychology
2. Edition November 2012
784 Pages, Hardcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
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.
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.
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