Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

Leading scientists reveal how to enhance instruction and student achievement across many domains, including science, mathematics, reading, and writing. Directed towards graduate students and seasoned scientists interested in education, it is also accessible to practitioners and students who are interested in improving learning and achievement.

This handbook brings together experts on parenting science and interventions to provide a comprehensive review of the field. Readers in psychology, family science, pediatrics, education, and related areas will welcome the breadth of information covered in this volume, including parenting children at different ages, settings, and cultural contexts.

A 2005 guide to the body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice of age researchers and gerontologists around the world. While the main focus of the book is the behavioural and social sciences, it provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

This volume takes the child's environment (culture, education, family, peers and media) as an essential component of child development.

The Handbook of Psychophysiology has been the authoritative resource for more than a quarter of a century. Since the previous edition was published a decade ago, the field of psychophysiological science has seen major advances. The fourth edition of the Handbook provides state-of-the-art coverage of approaches, methods, and analyses in the field.

Written by major international experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology, this is the first handbook to focus on the inseparable unity of the mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it.

Psycholinguistics is a central topic in cognitive science. This collection of chapters is written by leading researchers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

This book is a guide to a paradigm of research in cognitive science that emphasizes the role of the body and the environment in shaping how we think. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.

This book is a guide to a paradigm of research in cognitive science that emphasizes the role of the body and the environment in shaping how we think. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and employee development from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and employee development from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists.

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

This 2005 book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Chapters focus on research from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience and also include work related to philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine.

The Handbook of Psychophysiology has been the authoritative resource for more than a quarter of a century. Since the previous edition was published a decade ago, the field of psychophysiological science has seen major advances. The fourth edition of the Handbook provides state-of-the-art coverage of approaches, methods, and analyses in the field.

Psycholinguistics is a central topic in cognitive science. This collection of chapters is written by leading researchers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

Presenting a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary study of violent behavior and aggression across the lifespan, the second edition of this authoritative Handbook is brought fully up to date with the inclusion of new research on the etiology of violence and aggression, as well as new insights from intervention and prevention work.

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

This handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who address the topic of consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives from philosophical to anthropological to neuroscientific. An authoritative desk reference which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

Recent technological and theoretical innovations have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars from several fields to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic.

An international overview of the current state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology that focuses on how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour. This second edition provides expanded coverage of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics.

This is a valuable reference that employs empirical methods to improve our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. This second edition includes new chapters on a variety of topics, including neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and robots, cyborgs and consumption.

This book studies how experts differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. Various aspects of expertise such as intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, and creativity, are discussed.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning, or learning from words and images. It examines research-based principles to determine the most effective methods of multimedia instruction and uses cognitive theory to explain how these methods work.

This Handbook covers virtually all of the many facets of scientific research on creativity, including the related areas of innovation and imagination. It includes cutting-edge work from psychology, education, business, entrepreneurship, and neuroscience to present a complete overview of the nuanced topic of creativity.

This handbook provides an accessible summary of cutting-edge personality research in all its forms, giving students, researchers, and practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding personality theory and application. It also introduces the leading methods in the field, from molecular genetics to narrative inquiry.

This book is an essential resource for the rapidly evolving field of personality disorders for researchers and clinicians at all career stages in disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing. It covers the causes, course, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders with commentaries and a rejoinder for each chapter.

Providing a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice from its roots to its manifestations and consequences, this concise student edition of the award-winning Cambridge Handbook includes new pedagogical features such as learning objectives, key terms and definitions, summary points, discussion questions, and instructor's test bank.