This volume discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks.
In ""Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression"", Dr. Zindel V. Segal demonstrates a mind-body approach to helping clients who have experienced depression to prevent a relapse into depressive symptoms. Depression poses an ongoing challenge to staying well because certain thought patterns, usually involving rumination or self-criticism, ......
This book guides decision-making for professionals and communities working to create and maintain state-of-the-art early intervention programs. It presents a comprehensive early intervention model that supports children and their families.
Vocabulary Instruction That Strengthens Comprehension
This practical book is a guide for general and special educators who want to improve the vocabulary of their students. In addition to building children's word knowledge, the book emphasizes teaching students how to learn new vocabulary.
This practical book guides teachers and other school personnel in working with parents as a team to design, review, and modify individual education plans (IEPs) for children with special needs. The goal is for parents and school personnel to work collaboratively and to achieve decision-making by consensus.
This software package and accompanying book and tutorial provide users who have never heard of the Optimal Data Analysis paradigm with enough information to conduct a variety of ODA analyses quickly and with a minimum of effort.
Shows how the original notion of a dog-eat-dog world where survival of the fittest is the only rule must be modified by fresh findings on altruism. This book delves into related issues including sex differences in kindness, approaches to rehabilitating criminals, the political manifestations of altruism in the environmental movement, and more.
Addresses the conflict between the protection of civil liberties and the maintenance of national security in the face of terrorist threats. Aiming to make a balanced presentation of the issues, this collection of articles contains selections ranging from the ACLU's critique of the USA Patriot Act to a defense by its chief architect.
Empirical Contributions and Normative Commentaries
This cross-disciplinary book investigates how morality translates into action by presenting original psychological research on our understanding of rights and duties. This topical focus is especially timely in the post 9/11 world, where relative rights and duties of citizens and our government are foremost in our minds.