Advances in Child Development and Behavior [PDF ebook] 

Pavlov’s fundamental theory of higher nervous activity concerns the adaptation to changing external environments of organisms such as dogs, apes, and humans. In the 1920s, Pavlov and his disciples us …

A Practitioner’s Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills: Assessment, Analysis and Intervention offers a detailed and stepwise approach to problem behaviour analysis and management, based on the successf …

An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching outlines a definition of ’model teaching’ based on research evidence and accepted best practices in high education. Teachers at all levels o …

Transcortical aphasias is the term used for syndromes in which the ability to repeat language is relatively preserved despite marked disturbances in other linguistic domains. Although there are a num …

In this classic text, pioneering organizational consultant Edwin C. Nevis presents an approach to organizational consulting which is grounded in Gestalt theory.  Nevis brings his well-known insi …

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed. Among these themes&# …

How can we reconcile our desire for freedom with the limits or routines that orgainize our existence? How do we affirm our personality while adjusting to the world? How can we be nourished by exchang …

In today”s rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always ’go by the book’ for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true …

Psychophysics is a lively account by one of experimental psychology”s seminal figures of his lifelong scientific quest for general laws governing human behavior. It is a landmark work that captures …

Originally published in 1979, this title is based upon Professor Stones’ extensive work with practising and student teachers. His overriding concern is with the contribution of psychology to pedagogy …