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A Conceptual Introduction To Modeling: Qualitative...
$40.48
When seeking to test specific hypotheses in large data sets, social and behavioral scientists often construct models. Although useful in such situations, many phenomena of interest do not occur in large samples and do not lend themselves to precise measurement. In addition, a focus on hypothesis tes..
Adolescent Rationality and Development: Cognition,...
$11.09
The huge and fractured literature on adolescence challenges both students and scholars. For students there is too much to learn and too little coherence across topics to enable deeper understanding. For scholars, there are few integrative visions to connect minitheories, research programs, and pract..
Advanced Structural Equation Modeling: Issues and ...
$17.32
By focusing primarily on the application of structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques in example cases and situations, this book provides an understanding and working knowledge of advanced SEM techniques with a minimum of mathematical derivations. The book was written for a broad audience crossi..
Psychology Press/Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Affect and Creativity: the Role of Affect and Play...
$15.92
Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing the information that exists about affect and creativity and presenting a new model of the role of affect in th..
An Introduction To the Logic of Psychological Meas...
$55.70
This book declines to take for granted the widespread assumption that existing psychometric procedures provide scientific measurement. The currently fashionable concepts of measurement within psychology -- operationalism and representationalism -- are critically examined, and the classical view, tha..
Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sci...
$12.33
This best-selling text is written for those who use, rather than develop, advanced statistical methods. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material rather than proving results. Helpful narrative and numerous examples enhance understanding, and a chapter on matrix algebra serves..
Assessment of Language Disorders in Children
$30.17
This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders. Rebecca McCauley describes specific commonly used tools, as well as general approac..
Assessment, Measurement, and Prediction for Person...
$15.55
This book offers a comprehensive and practical view of assessment-based personnel decisions not available elsewhere in a single source. The author believes that:*decisions about people in organizations--initial selection, promotion, assignment to special training--are properly based on predictions, ..
Attitudes and Opinions
$52.81
Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while r..
Attribution Theory: Applications to Achievement, M...
$104.31
This unusual volume begins with a historical overview of the growth of attribution theory, setting the stage for the three broad domains of application that are addressed in the remainder of the book. These include applications to: achievement strivings in the classroom and the sports domain; issues..
Autobiography of Alexander Luria: A Dialogue with ...
$55.36
Alexander Luria was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. His official autobiography was written as a citizen of the Soviet Union, and while it provides a compelling story of his lifelong devotion to developing a comprehensive theory of the biological and cultural foundation..
Behavior Analysis and Learning: Fourth Edition
$9.19
Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian persp..
Child Abuse and Neglect
$14.68
Child abuse and neglect are examined in this new book - the latest research, what it entails, and how to recognize and report it. Federal law mandates the reporting of suspected child maltreatment by many professionals. This book will appeal to those who one day find themselves in the role of a mand..
Children's Sibling Relationships: Developmental an...
$21.98
In the last decade, the significance of siblings in children's development and adjustment has been widely recognized, and research on brothers and sisters has increased dramatically. Bringing together exciting research on siblings by leading developmental psychologists and clinicians, this volume's ..
Clinician's Guide To Neuropsychological Assessment
$37.55
Neuropsychological assessment is a difficult and complicated process. Often, experienced clinicians as well as trainees and students gloss over fundamental problems or fail to consider potential sources of error. Since formal test data on the surface appear unambiguous and objective, they may fall i..
Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder
$10.54
The relationship between thinking and feeling has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but more recently has become a dominant focus in psychology and in the brain sciences. This second edition of the highly praised Cognition and Emotion examines everything from past philosophical to current psycholo..
Cognitive Task Analysis (Expertise: Research and A...
$89.20
Cognitive task analysis is a broad area consisting of tools and techniques for describing the knowledge and strategies required for task performance. Cognitive task analysis has implications for the development of expert systems, training and instructional design, expert decision making and policyma..
Concepts and Theories of Human Development
$15.49
A classic in the field, this third edition will continue to be the book of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in theories of human development in departments of psychology and human development.This volume has been substantially revised with an eye toward supporting applied..
Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific...
$11.33
Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance Although much recent research argues against such domain-trans..
Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of La...
$51.58
This volume covers state-of-the-art research in the field of crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language. The forty chapters cover a wide range of topics that represent the many research interests of a pioneer, Dan Isaac Slobin, who has been a major intellectual and creative force in th..
Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE...
$92.91
Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies is the second major publication of GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), a groundbreaking, large-scale project on international management research featuring contributions from ..
Development and Vulnerability in Close Relationshi...
$17.91
How do people develop in their important relationships How do two people come together to form a new, close relationship How do relationships affect or determine who we are and who we become These questions should be central to the study of mind and development, but most researchers neglect relati..
Development in Infancy: An Introduction
$8.99
This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and res..
Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience: The Minneso...
$50.89
This volume provides an introduction to current research on the relation between brain development and the development of cognitive, linguistic, motor, and emotional behavior. At least two audiences will benefit from this book: psychologists interested in brain development, and neuroscientists inter..
Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook, Fifth...
$17.42
Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the field for advanced students. Readers of this textbook will obtain a new perspective on developmental science, a greater appreciation of the varied phenomena that constitute developmental sc..