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Your child may be a sensitive dreamer if: he forgets to follow instructions, no matter how clear and simple, she craves praise and positive attention, yet refuses to conform to what’s expected, he tells more than his share of fibs and tall tales. If you recognize these actions in your child, you know the frustration of turning to parenting experts for advice only to find the systems don’t work, the rules don’t stick and strong boundary setting makes the situation worse. The creative-sensitive dreamer is not the strong-willed child. Get this book and learn how to parent your special needs child who is principle -oriented rather than rule-oriented, highly creative, overly sensitive and frustrated at a world that fails to live up to the ideal.

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Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation between body and mind have been developed. Common among these conceptions is the idea that the body plays an important role in our emotional, social, and cognitive lives.

This latest volume in the Jean Piaget Society Symposia Series illustrates different ways in which the concept of embodiment can be used in developmental psychology and related disciplines. It explores the role of the body in the development of meaning, consciousness, and psychological functioning. The overall goal is to demonstrate how the concept of embodiment can deepen our understanding of developmental psychology by suggesting new possibilities of integrating biological, psychological, and socio-cultural approaches.

Developmental Perspective on Embodiment and Consciousness explores embodiment in two ways. First, embodiment is examined as a condition of and influencing the particular shape of psychological experience. This sense of embodiment reflects the effort to put the mind back into the body. Second, embodiment is examined as a reflective experience in the sense that the mind forms particular images about the body. This sense of embodiment reflects the effort to put the body into the mind.

The book opens with a discussion of embodiment from a meta-theoretical perspective. Then the role of embodiment in grounding conceptual meaning is examined. This is followed by discussions of the role of embodiment in strengthening our understanding of emotions, cognitive development, religious experiences, and social development. Then the role of the body in spatial cognition and the role of language in the development of complex forms of consciousness are explored. The final chapters examine the impact of culture on the conceptualization of the embodied self. The book concludes with an overview of the historical context of the mind-body dualism and a discussion of how the idea of embodiment transcends this dualism.

Intended for researchers and advanced students in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, biology, and sociology, this new book also serves as a reference for advanced courses on cognition and development.

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Rezidivierende Depression: Rückfälle verhindern, psychische Gesundheit erhalten Depressionen gehören zu den häufigsten psychischen Störungen. Von dem Anteil der Betroffenen, die Therapie erhalten, erlebt eine hohe Anzahl Rückfälle – das ist anstrengend für Betroffene und Therapeuten. Und das ist teuer für Krankenkassen und Arbeitgeber. Problem: Die „Rückfälligen” werden bisher jeweils wie akut Erkrankte behandelt, ohne dass die Vorgeschichte berücksichtigt wird. Neue Forschungen zeigen: Erst die Mischung von klassisch verhaltenstherapeutischen Interventionen mit Maßnahmen aus dem nichtklinischen Bereich (z.B. Achtsamkeit, Akzeptanz, psychologisches Wohlbefinden, Werteorientierung) bringt den vollen Erfolg. Praxisorientiert: Aufbau am Bedarf der Praktiker orientiert Dieses Buch ist geschrieben für Verhaltenstherapeuten in Ausbildung und Praxis, klinische Psychologen, Psychiater, psychologische und ärztliche Psychotherapeuten – und gliedert sich in 3 Teile: Symptomatik, Klassifikation, Epidemiologie, Diagnostik der rezidivierenden Depression.Therapieprogramm in 6 Modulen (für die Arbeit im Einzelsetting).Alle nötigen Arbeitsmaterialien (und zwei Hörbeispiele für angeleitete Übungen), die der Therapeut bei seiner Arbeit braucht (auf CD-ROM).Mit CD-ROM: Alle Arbeitsblätter zum Ausdrucken plus 2 Podcasts mit Übungen

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The learning-styles expert gives parents a better understanding of the types of learning approaches that will help their children do better in school.

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Why do birds often live in pairs and rear chicks together, whereas female mammals usually live in groups and rear their young without male help? Why do males sometimes live with a single mate when they are capable of fertilizing more than one female’s eggs? Is male helping behavior important for monogamous partnerships? This book provides answers concerning the biological roots of social monogamy in animal groups as diverse as ungulates, carnivores, rodents, birds and primates (including humans) for students and researchers in behavioral ecology, evolutionary anthropology and zoology.

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Die Psychologie des Alterns ist ein immer wichtigeres Thema in unserer alternden Gesellschaft. Das renommierte Autorenteam räumt mit dem Vorurteil „alt ist gleich krank” auf: Alter und Gesundheit sind u. a. abhängig von der Biografie, von sozioökonomischen Bedingungen und dem eigenen Verhalten. Das Buch liefert grundlegende Einblicke in alterspsychologische Themen wie Denken und Gedächtnis, Langlebigkeit und Prävention. Die aktualisierte 2. Auflage wurde um Abschnitte zur Angehörigenberatung und Fragen rund um Pflege, Tod und Sterben erweitert.

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This book presents a first generation of artificial brains, using vision as sample application. An object recognition system is built, using neurons and synapses as exclusive building elements. The system contains a feature pyramid with 8 orientations and 5 resolution levels for 1000 objects and networks for binding of features into objects. This vision system can recognize objects robustly in the presence of changes in illumination, deformation, distance and pose (as long as object components remain visible).

The neuro-synaptic network owes its functional power to the introduction of rapidly modifiable dynamic synapses. These give a network greater pattern recognition capabilities than are achievable with fixed connections. The spatio-temporal correlation structure of patterns is captured by a single synaptic differential equation in a universal way. The correlation can appear as synchronous neural firing, which signals the presence of a feature in a robust way, or binds features into objects.

Although in this book we can present only a first generation artificial brain and believe many more generations will have to follow to reach the full power of the human brain, we nevertheless see a new era of computation on the horizon. There were times when computers, with their precision, reliability and blinding speed, were considered to be as superior to the wet matter of our brain as a jet plane is to a sparrow. These times seem to be over, given the fact that digital systems inspired by formal logic and controlled algorithmically – today’s computers – are hitting a complexity crisis. A paradigm change is in the air: from the externally organised to the self-organised computer, of which the results described in this book may give an inkling.

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Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation’s crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions. Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing a range of illusions and providing evidence for the need, despite considerable reluctance, to relinquish some of our most cherished ideas about ourselves.

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Der Band bietet eine Einführung in die Konstruktion künstlicher Gehirne und stellt Neurocomputer der zweiten Generation vor. Um künstliche Gehirne zu konstruieren, werden Experiment, Theorie und Anwendung auf eine neue Art und Weise miteinander verbunden: Es geht um die Implementierung dynamischer, gepulster neuronaler Netze auf Halbleitern. Der Band ist das Ergebnis einer Kooperation zwischen Industrie und führenden Forschergruppen auf den Gebieten Gehirnforschung, Neurowissenschaft, Ingenieurwissenschaft, Elektrotechnik und Informatik.

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The cognitive neuroscience revolution rests on two corner stones: simple experimental paradigms to capture critical components of the mind and new methods to watch what the brain is doing while working in these paradigms. Michael I. Posner has been a driving force behind the use of componential and functional analysis to enhance our knowledge of mind-brain relationships. His scholarship has been pivotal in opening up new theoretical and methodological trajectories in the field. Moreover, he has actively promoted the expansion of the cognitive neuroscience program to encompass psychology.
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