Bøger i Psychology Revivals serien

The area of applied psychology known as behaviour modification or behaviour therapy had progressed remarkably in the 1970s. This volume, first published in 1981, describes some of the important characteristics of this development, and the relationship between behaviour change techniques and the principles of conditioning theory that generated them.

Originally published in 1990, the teaching profession had seldom been under greater pressure. This book aimed to help teachers to understand the forces that shaped their personal and professional development and their relationships with children at the time.

The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991, this book redresses the balance.

Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI.

The majority of cancer-related deaths are associated with nutritional problems. Originally published in 1985, the purpose of this book was to meet the needs of both the clinician and the researcher by bringing together data and theory about nutrition and cancer from several disciplines, as considered from a biobehavioral perspective.

The aim of this book, originally published in 1984, was to bring together a number of approaches to this important topic. Significant advances had been made in the two decades before publication in our understanding of many aspects of the coding that occurs along the visual pathways.

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology. The focus is upon cognitive models that relate action to the perceived attractiveness or aversiveness of expected consequences.

Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI.

First published in 1982, this is a collection of the most important of James J. Gibson¿s essays on the psychology of perception. The editors have selected over 30 works dealing with topics as ecological optics, event perception, pictorial representation, and the conceptual foundations of psychology.