Introduction of Disaster Cognitive Psychological Science

Mind: Introduction to cognitive science

Introduction: Applying Clinical Psychological Science to Practice.

Mental illness is a prevalent and extraordinarily complex phenomenon. Psychologists have developed distinct approaches toward understanding and treating mental illness, rooted in divergent epistemology. This introduction to the Special Issue on Clinical Psychological Science and Practice provides a brief overview of the scientist-practitioner gap, and explores one step (of many) toward bridging...

psychological aspects of disaster

human beings have always experienced disasters. a disaster may be brief,but its psychological effects may last for many years. these psychological effects are increasingly well documented.disasters affect not only those immediately involved, but also those whoknow the victims. this is perhaps particularly so when the victims arechildren. commonly when adults hear news of disasters they ask firs...

Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science - A Review

literature and theories put forth to date. Thagard summarizes results of research to date: “the central hypothesis of cognitive science: Thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures” (p. 10). He uses a shorthand notation for this approach: the computational-representational understanding of mind...

Culture and Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Section.

The field of psychology is witnessing a revolution of sorts of which it may not be fully aware. From the neuropsychology to globalization, this volume makes clear that culture research is beginning to permeate all areas of psychological science. The special issue includes articles on culture and neuroscience (Park & Huang), culture and memory (Ross & Wang), culture and decision making (Weber & ...