Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset,
maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years …

Cognitive theories of depression posit that people's thoughts, inferences, attitudes, and
interpretations, and the way in which they attend to and recall information, can increase their …

The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made
accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts …

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological
science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be …

Is there a difference between believing and merely understanding an idea? R. Descartes
(eg, 1641 [1984]) thought so. He considered the acceptance and rejection of an idea to be …

El aprendizaje humano es un proceso fascinante y los psicólogos no dejan de descubrir
nuevas cosas sobre el mismo. Sin embargo, resulta frustrante y entristecedor lo poco que …

This review of human motor skills is historical and critical, and starts about 100 years ago.
Three historical periods are identified. The main topics are knowledge of results, distribution …

First published in 1979. Basic research, at its essence, is exploration of the unknown. When
it is successful, isolated pieces of reality are deciphered and described. Most of the history of …

This chapter, is written in the spirit of two prior reviews—William James's (1890) chapter on"
The Consciousness of Self" in his Principles of Psychology, and Gordon W. Allport's 1943 …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the causes of memory interference and the
extent of situations in which these mechanisms operate. First, the chapter discusses some …