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Informationen zum Autor Peter A. Frensch is Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II, at Humboldt-University, Berlin. He is also president-elect of the German Society of Psychology, and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science. His research is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms underlying different facets of learning. Ralf Schwarzer is Professor of Psychology at the Freie University of Berlin, Germany. He has been President of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), and Division 8 of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP). His research is on stress, coping, social support, self-efficacy, and health behaviors. Klappentext Presents various approaches and perspectives that reflect the advances in psychological science. Zusammenfassung Volume 1 of the Invited Lectures, which togetherpresent the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Perception, Attention, and Action. M. Posner, M. Rothbart, Origins of Executive Attention. A.N. Meltzoff, Bridging Between Action Representation and Infant Theory of Mind. A. Vandierendonck, The Role of Executive Control in Task Switching. K. Friston, Perception: A Free-Energy Formulation. W.M.Pauli, H.E. Atallah, R. C. O'Reilly, Integrating What & How/Where with Instrumental and Pavlovian Learning: A Biologically Based Computational Model. R. Mausfeld, Intrinsic Multiperspectivity : On the Architectural Foundations of A Distinctive Mental Capacity. Part 2. Social Cognition. K. C. Klauer, Formal Models of Implicit Measures of Attitudes. F. Ostrosky , New Perspectives on Moral Emotions: A Neurobiological Perspective. A.A.J. Marley, The Best-Worst Method for the Study of Preferences: Theory and Application. Part 3. Learning, Memory, and Development. B.M. D'Onofrio, A.L. Singh, Behavior Genetics: Quasi-Experimental Studies of Environmental Processes. E.L.Grigorenko, Typical and Atypical Development: A Commentary on the Role of Genes. I.Lundberg, Early Language Development as Related to the Acquisition of Reading. J.B. Overmier, The Laws of Learning are Always in Effect. L.W. Victoria, L.M. Reder, How Midazolam Can Help Us Understand Human Memory: Three Illustrations. Part 4. Fundamental General Issues. J. Perner, Who Took the Cog out of Cog nitive Science? Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism. K. Tsuji, Significance of Phenomenal Analyses In the Reductive Situation: Reciprocal Role of the Studies of Potentiality and Reality. ...
