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“kerry a chalmers”

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  • Thinking About Human Memory

    by Michael S. Humphreys, Kerry A. Chalmers ...
    Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Psychology of Reading

    2nd Edition

    by Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby, Charles Clifton Jr. ...
    Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework.The book’s central theme is how readers go about extracting ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

    by Barbara J. Wendling, Nancy Mather ...
    Series Book 74 - Essentials of Psychological Assessment
    Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions puts at your fingertips the successful instructional techniques and materials necessary for accurate and effective use of evidence-based interventions. Written by Barbara Wendling and Nancy Mather, two experts in educational assessment and intervention, this intervention-oriented reference presents clear descriptions of research-based ... Read more

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  • How the Brain Learns to Read

    by David A. Sousa ...
    A modern classic, updated for today’s classroom needsNo skill is more fundamental to our students’ education than reading. And no recent book has done more to advance our understanding of the neuroscience behind this so-critical skill than David Sousa’s How the Brain Learns to Read. To tens of thousands of educators, Sousa revealed at last how exactly young brains learn to make sense of printed ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Science of Reading

    A Handbook

    Edited by Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
    The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies ... Read more

    $57.00 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

    Edited by Usha Goswami ...
    Series Book 32 - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
    This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition.New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and languageProvides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Theory of Mind

    How Children Understand Others' Thoughts and Feelings

    by Martin J. Doherty ...
    Series series International Texts in Developmental Psychology
    Most of us are continually aware that others have thoughts and feelings – but are children? When? This book is a concise and readable review of the extensive research into children’s understanding of what other people think and feel, a central topic in developmental psychology known as "Theory of Mind".The understanding of belief is central to this text, which explains in simple terms what ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mindreaders

    The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"

    by Ian Apperly ...
    Theory of mind, or "mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparative psychologists and more recently by neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. This book is the first to draw together these diverse findings in an account of the cognitive basis of "theory of mind ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Cognition

    From Memory to Creativity

    by Robert W. Weisberg, Lauretta M. Reeves ...
    From memory to creativity—a complete and current presentation of the field of cognitionThe process of cognition allows us to function in life; it translates inputs from the world so we can recognize the sound of the alarm clock, remember the day of the week, and decide which clothes to wear.Cognition: From Memory to Creativity provides readers with a clear, research-based, and well-illustrated ... Read more

    $128.00 USD

  • Vocabulary Instruction for Struggling Students

    by Patricia F. Vadasy, PhD, J. Ron Nelson, PhD ...
    Series series What Works for Special-Needs Learners
    Addressing a key skill in reading, writing, and speaking, this comprehensive book is grounded in cutting-edge research on vocabulary development. It presents evidence-based instructional approaches for at-risk students, including English language learners and those with learning difficulties. Coverage ranges from storybook reading interventions for preschoolers to direct instruction and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Working Memory and Language

    by Susan E. Gathercole, Alan D. Baddeley ...
    Series series Essays in Cognitive Psychology
    This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled reading, and comprehension. The authors draw upon experimental, neuropsychological and developmental evidence in a wide-ranging evaluation of the contribution of two components of working memory to each aspect of language. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reading Comprehension Strategies

    Theories, Interventions, and Technologies

    Edited by Danielle S. McNamara ...
    First published in 2007. The focus of this book is on the cognitive processes involved in comprehension, and moreover, on techniques that help readers improve their ability to comprehend text and it is also on reading comprehension strategies. Indeed, the use of effective reading comprehension strategies is perhaps the most important means to helping readers improve comprehension and learning from ... Read more

    $94.99 USD