by Keith Rayner ... [et al (2012)
"Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework. The book's central theme is how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and comprehending the text. Like its predecessor, this thoroughly updated 2nd Edition encompasses all aspects of the psychology of reading with chapters on writing systems, word recognition, the work of the eyes during reading, inner speech, sentence processing, discourse processing, learning to read, dyslexia, individual differences and speed reading. Psychology of Reading, 2nd Edition, is essential reading for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in cognitive psychology and could be used as a core textbook on courses on the psychology of reading and related topics. In addition, the clear writing style makes the book accessible to people without a background in psychology but who have a personal or professional interest in the process of reading."--Publisher's website.
Calvin S. Hall, Gardner Lindzey
Covers personality theories of Sigmund Freud (psychoanalytic theory), C.G. Jung (analytic theory), Henry A. Murray (personology), Kurt Lewin (field theory), Gordon Allport, William H. Sheldon (constitutional theory), Raymond B. Cattell (factor theory), B.F. Skinner (operant reinforcement theory), Carl Rogers (self theory); also, social psychological theories, organismic theory, stimulus-response theory, existential psychology.
Alex Kozulin
Alex Kozulin, translator of Vygotsky's work and distinguished Russian-American psychologist, has written the first major intellectual biography about Vygotsky's theories and their relationship to twentieth-century Russian and Western intellectual culture. He traces Vygotsky's ideas to their origins in his early essays on literary criticism, Jewish culture, and the psychology of art, and he explicates brilliantly his psychological theory of language, thought, and development. Kozulin's biography of Vygotsky also reflects many of the conflicts of twentieth-century psychology--from the early battles between introspectionists and reflexologists to the current argument concerning the cultural and social, rather than natural, construction of the human mind. Vygotsky was a contemporary of Freud and Piaget, and his tragically early death and the Stalinist suppression of his work ensured that his ideas did not have an immediate effect on Western psychology. But the last two decades have seen his psychology become highly influential while that of other theoretical giants has faded. --from back cover.
Dinah Jayson
Ce livre est destiné à toute personne qui élève des enfants. Il vise à vous aider à comprendre le comportement de votre enfant au fil des étapes normales de son développement, ainsi qu'à gérer tout comportement problématique. Bon nombre de stratégies peuvent vous aider, que vous ayez un enfant difficile, ou que vous souhaitiez simplement améliorer votre relation avec votre enfant. Le présent ouvrage offre quelques solutions que vous pourrez mettre à l'essai. Une meilleure compréhension du comportement de votre enfant peut vous aider à mieux gérer la situation. Il existe de nombreuses stratégies qui peuvent vous aider à gérer un enfant au comportement difficile. Il n'y a pas une seule "bonne" façon de gérer les problèmes de comportement ; chaque situation est unique et doit être considérée individuellement. Il existe un grand nombre de ressources d'aide. Cet ouvrage vous aidera à mieux comprendre le comportement des enfants et, à l'aide de solutions concrètes, vous aidera à gérer les situations difficiles.
Gustav Jahoda
The relationship between "mind" and "culture" has become a prominent - and fashionable - issue in psychology during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The conflict is between those who see the human mind as being generated from, and an intimate part of, culture and those, usually termed cognitivists, who view the mind as essentially separate from the environment. Gustav Jahoda traces the historical origins of this conflict to demonstrate that thinkers' preoccupation with the relationship between mind and culture is a very old one. The salient issues began to crystallize three centuries ago in Europe in the form of two distinct traditions whose contrasting conceptions of human nature and the human mind still remain the focus of current debates. The dominant one was produced by the scientific approach that had proved so successful in the physical realm. This view, associated with the Enlightenment, holds that mind is an essential part of nature and subject to its fixed laws. As a result of the influence of external factors such as climate and ecology, mind creates culture but remains essentially unchanged. The opposite view, which dates back to Vico and was espoused by anti-Enlightenment thinkers, is that the mind is separate from nature, an entity that both creates and is extensively modified by culture in a constant cycle of mutual determination. The growing prestige of experimental psychology has led to a heated debate between supporters of the rival traditions: is psychology a science or a cultural discipline? Jahoda identifies the current form of this debate as but a phase in psychology's long fascination with the role that culture plays in the formation of the mind. This book is a formidable achievement by one of Europe's most distinguished and erudite psychologists.