Experimental Psychology

Parenting and the Child's World

Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-emotional Development

John G. Borkowski, Sharon L. Ramey, Marie Bristol-Power

Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors, as well as social influences from peers, teachers, and the community at large. The text's 39 contributors search for when, where, and how parenting matters and the major antecedents and moderators of effective parenting. The chapters focus on the major conceptual issues and empirical approaches that underlie our understanding of the importance of parenting for child development in academic, socio-emotional, and risk-taking domains. Additional goals are to show how culture and parenting are interwoven, to chart future research directions, and to help parents and professionals understand the implications of major research findings.

Didattica metacognitiva. Come insegnare strategie efficaci di apprendimento

John G. Borkowski

Saggio di riferimento per chi vuole introdurre l'insegnamento metacognitivo in classe.

Predicting and Explaining Strategy Generalization

Task Analysis and Strategy Elements

Fredi P. Büchel, John G. Borkowski

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Risk and Resilience

Adolescent Mothers and Their Children Grow Up

John G. Borkowski

In 1984, a longitudinal study was launched at the University of Notre Dame to evaluate the social and psychological consequences of teenage parenting. Interwoven Lives: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (2001) described, in detail, the development of these adolescent mothers and their children across the first eight years of life. Major delays were first noticed in children's patterns of attachment at age 1 and their IQ and personal adjustment scores at age 3. By age 8, school-related problems were found in 70% of the children. With these data as the backdrop, this companion volume, Risk and Resilience, identifies major risk factors associated with long-term developmental delays as well as the processes that led to resilience in some of the mothers and children. This new volume traces the children's development at ages 8, 10, and 14. The editors focus on identifying risk and protective factors associated with important life course trajectories as the mothers entered early adulthood and their children became adolescents. Relatively unexplored protective factors - such as religiosity, patterns of father involvement, and romantic relationships - were found to positively influence development for both teenage mothers and their children. This new text also addresses: New methodological approaches with an emphasis on the use of hierarchical linear and structural equation modeling and dynamical systems analyses Implications for prevention and intervention programs Intellectual, educational, and socioemotional outcome data The "dark side" of rearing children in poverty The multiple risks related to adolescent parenting and their profound impact on children's development How resilience emerges in children's lives and the specific factors that promote it. Risk and Resilience appeals to researchers in developmental psychology and family processes as well as agency and government professionals charged with public policy and service delivery.

Cognitive Strategies: Good Strategy Users Coordinate Metacognition and Knowledge

Michael Pressley, John G. Borkowski, Wolfgang Schneider

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Sources of Memory and Metamemory Development: Societal, Parental, and Educational Influences

Beth Kurtz, Wolfgang Schneider, John G. Borkowski, Martha Carr, Lisa A. Turner

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Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling

Rex B. Kline

Significantly revised, the fifth edition of the most complete, accessible text now covers all three approaches to structural equation modeling (SEM)--covariance-based SEM, nonparametric SEM (Pearl’s structural causal model), and composite SEM (partial least squares path modeling). With increased emphasis on freely available software tools such as the R lavaan package, the text uses data examples from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive understanding of all phases of SEM--what to know, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid. It includes exercises with answers, rules to remember, topic boxes, and new self-tests on significance testing, regression, and psychometrics. The companion website supplies helpful primers on these topics as well as data, syntax, and output for the book's examples, in files that can be opened with any basic text editor. New to This Edition *Chapters on composite SEM, also called partial least squares path modeling or variance-based SEM; conducting SEM analyses in small samples; and recent developments in mediation analysis. *Coverage of new reporting standards for SEM analyses; piecewise SEM, also called confirmatory path analysis; comparing alternative models fitted to the same data; and issues in multiple-group SEM. *Extended tutorials on techniques for dealing with missing data in SEM and instrumental variable methods to deal with confounding of target causal effects. Pedagogical Features *New self-tests of knowledge about background topics (significance testing, regression, and psychometrics) with scoring key and online primers. *End-of-chapter suggestions for further reading and exercises with answers. *Troublesome examples from real data, with guidance for handling typical problems in analyses. *Topic boxes on special issues and boxed rules to remember. *Website promoting a learn-by-doing approach, including data, extensively annotated syntax, and output files for all the book’s detailed examples.

Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods

Michael Quinn Patton

The completely revised and updated edition of this methodological classic continues to provide practical, comprehensive and strategic guidance on qualitative design, purposeful sampling, interviewing, fieldwork, observation methods, and qualitative analysis and interpretation while integrating the extensive qualitative literature of the last decade. New to this edition: - Twelve primary strategic themes of qualitative inquiry to clarify readers′ understanding of the different strands of qualitative research - Five distinct criteria-based frameworks for presenting and judging qualitative findings - Sixteen different theoretical and philosophical approaches to qualitative inquiry identified, compared and contrasted - Variations in observational methods, including historical perspectives, ethical issues, and case studies - Alternative interviewing strategies and approaches, including focus group interviews, group interviews, and cross-cultural interviews - Additional new coverage on: new issues in and approaches to fieldwork; in-depth treatment of emergent designs and purposeful sampling; detailed analytical guidelines, including software and computer-assisted options; strategies for enhancing quality and credibility of qualitative findings, mixed methods, and triangulation; and, a review and listing of the latest internet resources The book examines and honours both the science and art of qualitative inquiry. The qualities that made previous editions of this widely used book so highly valued by both seasoned professionals and students continue to shine through in this revision, including Patton′s extensive experience, broad perspective, inclusive sensitivity, concrete examples, pragmatic orientation, and fine writing.

Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

Jacob Cohen

Statistical Power Analysis is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The Second Edition includes: * a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; * a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; * expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation.

Generalized Additive Models

An Introduction with R

Simon Wood

Now in widespread use, generalized additive models (GAMs) have evolved into a standard statistical methodology of considerable flexibility. While Hastie and Tibshirani's outstanding 1990 research monograph on GAMs is largely responsible for this, there has been a long-standing need for an accessible introductory treatment of the subject that also emphasizes recent penalized regression spline approaches to GAMs and the mixed model extensions of these models. Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R imparts a thorough understanding of the theory and practical applications of GAMs and related advanced models, enabling informed use of these very flexible tools. The author bases his approach on a framework of penalized regression splines, and builds a well-grounded foundation through motivating chapters on linear and generalized linear models. While firmly focused on the practical aspects of GAMs, discussions include fairly full explanations of the theory underlying the methods. Use of the freely available R software helps explain the theory and illustrates the practicalities of linear, generalized linear, and generalized additive models, as well as their mixed effect extensions. The treatment is rich with practical examples, and it includes an entire chapter on the analysis of real data sets using R and the author's add-on package mgcv. Each chapter includes exercises, for which complete solutions are provided in an appendix. Concise, comprehensive, and essentially self-contained, Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R prepares readers with the practical skills and the theoretical background needed to use and understand GAMs and to move on to other GAM-related methods and models, such as SS-ANOVA, P-splines, backfitting and Bayesian approaches to smoothing and additive modelling.

On Human Nature

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

Edward O. Wilson

Preface 1 Dilemma 2 Heredity 3 Development 4 Emergence 5 Aggression 6 Sex 7 Altruism 8 Religion 9 Hope Glossary Notes Index.

The Authoritarian Specter

Bob Altemeyer

The book presents the latest results from a prize-winning research program on the authoritarian personality. Many of America's biggest problems, Bob Altemeyer shows, have authoritarian roots.

Tactics of Scientific Research

Evaluating Experimental Data in Psychology

Murray Sidman

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Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography

Daniel R. Montello

This comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment. It provides the broadest and most inclusive coverage of the field so far, including work relevant to human geography, cartography, and geographic information science.

Dark Psychology

Master the Advanced Secrets of Psychological Warfare, Covert Persuasion, Dark NLP, Stealth Mind Control, Dark Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Maximum Manipulation, and Human Psychology

R.J. Anderson

What if everything you thought you knew about influence — was the watered-down version? Have you ever wondered how some people seem to bend rooms to their will? How certain leaders, salespeople, and even charming strangers get exactly what they want — every time? Why some conversations leave you feeling drained, agreed-into-things you didn't want, and unable to explain how it happened? Welcome to dark psychology — the unsanitized truth about how human minds actually get moved. Dark Psychology: Master the Advanced Secrets of Psychological Warfare, Covert Persuasion, Dark NLP, Stealth Mind Control, Dark CBT, Maximum Manipulation, and Human Psychology is not a polite book. It's a direct, no-apologies field manual for the techniques powerful people use to influence, persuade, and steer human behavior — and how the rest of us can finally see through them. Inside, you'll uncover: · Advanced persuasion techniques built on real psychological research · Dark NLP — how language reprograms behavior in seconds · The mechanics of covert manipulation in relationships, workplaces, and politics · Subliminal messaging — what it is, where it shows up, how to defend against it · The dark CBT framework: rewriting your own mental programming · How to read body language and detect deception in real time · Psychological warfare tactics — and how to neutralize them · Mind control myths vs. mind control realities This book isn't here to make you a villain. It's here to make sure you stop being a target. Once you can name the techniques, the techniques stop working on you. That's the real superpower — and it's been hidden in plain sight your whole life. Are you ready to handle that kind of clarity? Scroll up, click "Buy Now," and finally see the game everyone else is already playing.

Strategies and Tactics of Human Behavioral Research

James M. Johnston, Henry S. Pennypacker

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Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Michel Hersen

Provides a thorough examination of the components of behavior modification, behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and applied behavior analysis for both child and adult populations in a variety of settings. Although the focus is on technical applications, entries also provide the historical context in which behavior therapists have worked, including research issues and strategies.

Perspectives on Animal Behavior

Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Elizabeth Jakob

The third edition of a successful and effective book for the introductory course in Animal Behavior. The text includes strong supportive reviews, a balanced approach and the latest in research and findings. The author is known for an accessible and easy-to-understand writing style making the most difficult topics understandable.