This is the ideal textbook for courses on learning and memory. By focusing on learning in people, it shows how learning and memory tap the same cognitive processes, making possible a coherent, integrated account of learning and memory, and of behavior and cognition. It combines …
Now in this latest book, John Hattie has joined forces with cognitive psychologist Greg Yates to build on the original data and legacy of the Visible Learning project, showing how it's underlying ideas and the cutting edge of cognitive science can form a powerful and complimenta…
Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recen…
Attention and memory: an integrated framework
"The author examines a range of autobiographical and first-person fictional texts from holocaust literature, women's writing and popular fiction. Each text foregrounds issues of memory, history and trauma in the construction of identity. Reading these texts of memory shows that …
Om hvordan hjernen udvikles i barndommen og muliggør udviklingen af hukommelse, indlæring og kognition. Om hvordan hjernen påvirkes af alt fra gener til stress, fysisk aktivitet og nære relationer. Hvordan nedsat arbejdshukommelse ligger bag indlæringsproblemer, og hvordan kan m…
This textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the thinking skills they need to succeed in today's world. This new edition r…