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Author:   Robert L. Solso (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno) ,  Dominic W. Massaro (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780195080643

ISBN 10:   0195080645
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   20 July 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART I: Introductory Comments and General Theories 1: R.L. Solso: Turning the Corner 2: G.H. Bower: Empowering People Through Friendly Technology: Psychology in the Twenty-first Century 3: R.W. Sperry: The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution 4: R.N. Shepard: Mental Universals: Toward a Twenty-first Century Science of Mind PART II: Developmental Theories and Neurocognition 5: H. Gardner: Perennial Antinomies and Perpetual Redrawings: Is There Progress in the Study of Mind? 6: J.M. Mandler: The Death of Developmental Psychology 7: S.M. Kosslyn: Freud Returns? PART III: Memory, Perception, and Ecology 8: B.B. Murdock: Human Memory in the Twenty-first Century 9: R.J. Sternberg: The Miller's Tale: A Speculative Glimpse into the Cognitive Psychology of the Future 10: R.L. Gregory: The Future of Psychology 11: M.T. Turvey and R.E. Shaw: Toward an Ecological Physics and a Physical Psychology PART IV: Language and Categorization 12: J.J. Jenkins: Unintended Consequences and the Future of Psychology 13: W.J.M. Levelt: Chapters of Psychology 14: D.W. Massaro: From Speech-is-Special to Talking Heads: The Past to the Present 15: G. Lakoff: The Neurocognitive Self: Conceptual Research in the Twenty-first Century and the Rethinking of What a Person Is PART V: Applied and Social Cognition 16: D.A. Norman: The Future of the Mind Lies in Technology 17: E. Hunt: Pulls and Pushes on Cognitive Psychology: The View Towards 2001 18: R. Sommer: The Fortieth Anniversary of the National Institute of Cognitive Ecology 19: J.B. Pittinger: Some Assembly Required: Biased Speculations on the Future of Human Factors Design PART VI: Major Themes and Common Threads 20: D.W. Massaro and R.L. Solso: Perennial Issues for the Next Century

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The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review<br>

The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academicpsychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology. -- The Reader's Review

Author Information

Robert L. Solso is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His many published works include Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Cognition and the Visual Arts. Dominic Massaro is Professor of Psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Book Editor for the American Journal of Psychology.

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