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Cognitive Psychology books

Below are the best books we could find on Cognitive Psychology.

Cognitive psychology is the science of how people think: how we perceive, process, and conceptualize our environment. Its focuses include attention, language, memory, creativity, logic, reasoning, calculating, problem solving, and decision making. Cognitive psychology has been used to understand and guide treatment and therapy for brain related issues such as depression, anxiety, speech disorders, trauma, Alzheimer’s, attention deficit disorder, and learning disabilities.

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Vulnerability to Depression: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Prevention and Treatment

Providing a cutting-edge examination of the mechanisms underlying depression, this volume integrates important areas of research that have largely remained separate.

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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

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Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.

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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools.

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The Arts and Human Development: A Psychological Study of the Artistic Process

A revised edition of Gardner’s classic on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children’s art, this book is a systematic examination of the relation between youthful participation in the arts and the ultimate craftsmanship attained by gifted artists.

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The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism (5th Edition: Revised & Expanded)

In this updated and expanded fifth edition, The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism—the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.

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Overcoming Depression: A Step-by-Step Approach to Gaining Control Over Depression

St. John's Wort, Prozac, psychotherapy, support groups--today's individual suffering from depression has a laundry list of treatments to choose from.

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The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective.

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Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!

Is your child a picky eater, or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only 3-20 foods, refusing all others, eat from only one food group, or gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater.

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Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate—to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth.

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