Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual-until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily...

Today, the belief that human beings are special is distinctly out of fashion. Almost every day we are presented with new revelations about how animals are so much more like us than we ever imagined. The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to our closest living relatives - the great apes. This book argues that whatever first impressions might tell us, apes are really not 'just like us'. Science has provided strong evidence that the boundaries...

Depression is a state of mind problem that causes a constant sensation of trouble and loss of interest. Likewise called a significant burdensome issue or clinical discouragement, it influences how you feel, think, and act and can prompt different close-to-home and actual issues. You might experience difficulty doing typical everyday exercises, and now and again you might feel as though your daily routine does not merit experiencing.Something beyond...

In this DVD Piaget's theory of concrete operational development is looked at. It details information processing, cognitive advances and language development. How the school and parents function in respect to the classroom, bilingual education and IQ and achievement tests are also discussed.

"A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver's Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger...

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which cloud our judgment and muddle our decision making. Science writer David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and social psychology, cognitive science, neurology, and even marketing and economics. And he interviews many of the top thinkers in psychology...

Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information, we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious, separates clear thinkers from the crowd. “How to Think Straight” lays the foundation for critical reasoning...

¿De dónde surgen las facultades parapsicológicas? ¿Qué dice cada una de las teorías más interesantes? Un mundo de nuevas sensaciones puesto a su alcance a través de un buen número de ejercicios prácticos, basados en las técnicas más eficaces de la ciencia parapsicológica. El dominio de las técnicas para desarrollar las facultades parapsicológicas: la concentración, la meditación, la visualización, etc. La telepatía, la precognición,...

This is a collection of what I feel are some of the most important social/cognitive psychology experiments, studies, demonstrations, biases, and systematic reviews, presented in an entertaining way while adhering to academic standards. I have always been fascinated by how our behaviors, cognition (thoughts), and affect (how we feel) are greatly dependent upon our social environment and our imperfect brains. I find it fascinating—perhaps because...

El narcisismo es un trastorno de la personalidad caracterizado por un sentido exagerado de autoimportancia, una necesidad constante de admiración y una falta de empatía hacia los demás. Las personas con narcisismo tienden a tener una visión distorsionada de sí mismas y del mundo que les rodea, centrando su atención en su propio bienestar y logros, y buscando constantemente la validación de los demás.Un individuo narcisista se presenta con...