Jeanne Ellis Ormrod 
How We Think and Learn [EPUB ebook] 
Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Implications

What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup—beliefs, values, and so on—of those individuals? This is perhaps the …

Since the early 1970s, social psychology has been in crisis. At the time Reconstructing Social Psychology (Armistead) provided a critical review of theories and assumptions in the discipline. Origina …

This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison, expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of r …

Based on presentations made at a conference sponsored by the Social Science Research Council”s Committee on Social and Affective Development During Childhood, held at Harwichport, Mass., in June 198 …

This important new book explores the psychological motives that shape the extent and nature of people”s cooperative behavior in the groups, organizations and societies to which they belong. Individu …

First Published in 1986. The modern history of temperament research began in the late 1950s with the New York Longitudinal Study. Twenty-five years later, temperament has become a major focus of rese …

Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metacognition involves the monitoring of performance in o …

Case-based reasoning in design is becoming an important approach to computer-support for design as well as an important component in understanding the design process. Design has become a major focus …

Psychology and philosophy have long studied the nature and role of explanation. More recently, artificial intelligence research has developed promising theories of how explanation facilitates learnin …

First published in 1984. Starting out with the exploration of the value of the case study, this volume looks at organisational change, and presents nine case studies of planned change on the organiza …