In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today”s youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and d …

This volume juxtaposes two different domains of developmental theory: the Piagetian approach and the information-processing approach. Articles by experts in both fields discuss how concepts of develo …

Employees are constantly making decisions and judgments that have the potential to affect themselves, their families, their work organizations, and on some occasion even the broader societies in whic …

The shortcomings of Piaget”s theory of intellectual development are well-known. Less clear is what sort of theory should be devised to replace it. This volume describes the current ‘main contenders, …

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are arguably the two most influential figures in psychological research. Although born in the same year of 1896, it is only over the last decade or so that the work of Vy …

Here Hans Eysenck applies the principles of modern learning theory to account for the observed phenomena of hysteria and anxiety. Such principles were initially developed through the experiments and …

Captures the stories behind the work of the clinicians and scholars who have contributed significantly to neuropsychology”s development. …

This book is a testimony to Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov”s years of work in developing knowledge in the areas of perception, information processing and attention, and to the research it has spawned. I …

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in …

First published in 2006. Professor Jean Piaget is most widely known as a child psychologist; nevertheless he is also a zoologist, a mathematician, and a philosopher; but perhaps, above all, he is a g …