Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of. the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic. of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is. identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,. including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike. what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner. lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to. computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a. cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable. efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various. scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive. traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the. practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant. information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are. impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,. relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be. said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or. closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a. conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and. pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to. integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further. attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal. conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression. in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and. label led deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief. dynamics, more...

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Integrating humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic perspectives, this book offers descriptions of strategies for helping clients get "unstuck," including motivational interviewing and the two-chair approach. It also includes case examples that cut across different clinical problems and therapeutic models. more...

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Archetype, Attachment, Analysis is a well-researched presentation of new material that offers a revision and reinterpretation of Jung's archetypal hypothesis. more...

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The overall aim of the series is to capture the interdisciplinary nature of the broad field of cognitive science with a range of volumes including anthologies which are either thematically related or more diverse in their contents. Proposals are welcome for volumes concerning any topics across the wide range of cognitive science fields. Possible themes to be explored include Music and Cognition, Decision Making and Behavioral Finance, Education and Cognition, Cognitive Science of Science, Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science, Imagery, Evolutionary Psychology, Consciousness, and Language. more...

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Brings together and assesses past and present research on information processing, to formulate a model of this entire system. The author emphasizes that memory and attention cannot be considered independently and presents research from many areas to support his thesis. more...

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