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“samuel j messick”

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  • Assessment in Higher Education

    Issues of Access, Quality, Student Development and Public Policy

    Edited by Samuel J. Messick ...
    Assessment in Higher Education brings together in one place most of the major issues confronting higher education in the 1990s. These include enhancing student access, development, and success in higher education; transforming admissions testing to meet expanding educational needs; resolving the politics of accountability by assessing quality outcomes of higher education; assuring fair assessment ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Intelligence and Personality

    Bridging the Gap in Theory and Measurement

    Edited by Janet M. Collis, Samuel J. Messick, Ulrich Schiefele ...
    This volume brings together leading researchers in a major new effort to bridge the historical gap between the domains of ability and personality. The result is a remarkable collection of chapters analyzing critical issues at the interface--style, structure, process, and context. Contributors address:* intelligence and its relation to temperament and character-hierarchical models of cognition and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis

    by R. Coleman Curtis ...
    Series series New Imago
    Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences

    by KORMOS, Judit, SMITH, Anne Margaret ...
    This is a comprehensive resource for new language teachers and experienced professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge of working with students who have a Specific Learning Difference such as dyslexia. It can be used a core text, forming the basis of a course, or as supplementary reading to extend existing courses. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Achievement

    Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Barry J. Zimmerman, Dale H. Schunk ...
    This volume brings together internationally known researchers representing different theoretical perspectives on students' self-regulation of learning. Diverse theories on how students become self-regulated learners are compared in terms of their conceptual origins, scientific form, research productivity, and pedagogical effectiveness. This is the only comprehensive comparison of diverse classical ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Applied Child Study

    A Developmental Approach

    by Anthony D. Pellegrini, David F. Bjorklund ...
    Child study is a very complex field. Human beings, and children, specifically, are very complex beings. Consequently, simple answers and solutions to problems are very often just that: too simple. This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function. These theories and methods can be used as a kind of "tool kit" for application in a ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

    Edited by Usha Goswami ...
    Series Book 32 - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
    This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition.New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and languageProvides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1

    Cognition, Biology, and Methods

    Edited by Richard M. Lerner, Willis F. Overton ...
    In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars ... Read more

    $209.99 CAD

  • The Self and Perspective Taking

    Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science

    by Louise McHugh, PhD, Ian Stewart, PhD ...
    Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior, it’s difficult for psychologists and researchers to determine if intervention has been effective.From a modern contextual behavioral point of view, the self develops in tandem with the ability to take perspective on one’s ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy

    Edited by Debra J. Mashek, Arthur Aron ...
    This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disciplines. Each contributing author defines their understanding of the meaning of closeness and intimacy; summarizes existing research and provides an ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Social Cognition

    How Individuals Construct Social Reality

    by Rainer Greifeneder, Herbert Bless, Klaus Fiedler ...
    Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and navigate in their social world. For instance, individuals need to understand what they perceive, they learn and recall information from memory, they form judgments and decisions, they communicate with others, and they regulate their behavior. While all of ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition

    Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development

    Edited by David Yun Dai, Robert J. Sternberg ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and motivation as inextricably related.Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition: Integrative Perspectives on ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD