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“jean retschitzki”

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  • Moves in Mind

    The Psychology of Board Games

    by Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki, Alex de Voogt ...
    Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into board games. This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Memory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan K. Foster ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How does memory grow and change as we age? And what of so-called 'recovered' memories? This book brings ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

    Theory, Research, Applications

    Edited by Patrik N. Juslin, John Sloboda ...
    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Road To Excellence

    the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games

    Edited by K. Anders Ericsson ...
    Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last 20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the laboratory in order to identify their mediating mechanisms. Contrary to the common belief that innate talents are the critical factors for ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

    Edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    This 2006 book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Problem Solving

    Perspectives from Cognition and Neuroscience

    by S. Ian Robertson ...
    The way that we assess and overcome problems is an essential part of everyday life. Problem Solving provides a clear introduction to the underlying mental processes involved in solving problems. Drawing on research from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, it examines the methods and techniques used by both novices and experts in familiar and unfamiliar situations.This edition has been ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

    Edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of expertise and expert performance and show how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. The book reviews innovative methods for measuring ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Writing

    A Mosaic of New Perspectives

    Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, Elisa Mambrino, David D. Preiss ...
    This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy, unified, and comprehensive source of information to ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching

    by Patsy M. Lightbown ...
    Series series Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom
    Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom focuses on key topics for teaching English as a second or foreign language. These instructional guides are informed by research in second language acquisition and language pedagogy, and show the relevance of theory to the practising teacher. This series is for teachers of English as a second or foreign language for learners aged 5-18. It is suitable ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Working Memory Capacity

    by Nelson Cowan ...
    Series series Essays in Cognitive Psychology
    The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold temporarily in an especially accessible form for use in the completion of almost any challenging ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

    by Zoltan Dornyei ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD