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This volume describes a broad array of culturally sensitive research methods in psychology, addressing diverse issues such as implicit bias, identity development, trauma, and racism. Each chapter provides instructive value for those who want to effectively employ these methods, as well as deep reflection on the meaning of various methods for understanding complex psychological phenomena.

Provides a summary of information about research into the psychology of humor. This book includes brain imaging studies, evolutionary models, and animal research. It draws on contributions from sociology, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology. It also explores applications of humor in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace.

Presents a model of learning disabilities that integrates the cognitive, neural, genetic, and contextual factors associated with these disorders. This book addresses classification, assessment, and intervention for a range of disabilities involved in reading, mathematics, and written expression.

In Language and the Learning Curve, a leading researcher in the field offers a radical new view of language development, unusual in its combination of Chomskian linguistics and learning theory. Stimulating and accessible, it is an important new work that challenges many of our usual assumptions about syntactic development.

Suggesting that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed, this work re-appraises the conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, rather than in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.

This text focuses on the visual information processing and computational operations in the visual system that lead to representations of objects in the brain.

Bases on the Fitts Lectures, this volume presents a core set of concepts and principles that proposes a unified interpretation of a wide variety of phenomena of memory, categorization and decision-making. These theories are then applied to issues in category-learning and recognition.

This volume examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments, such as Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory. Chapters reveal the prospects of applying these new theories to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language and logic.