Bøker av Robert W. Proctor

This textbook presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of the science of attention, conveying central findings and applications to real-world issues, such as its relationship with technology, learning, and memory.

Providing a critical evaluation of the assets and limitations of contextualism for doing research in psychology and education, the authors compare contextualism, modified contextualism and mechanism as approaches to doing science, as well as their merits in studying closed versus open systems.

* Explores not only the procedural aspects of psychological research, but also delves into the issue of how to accomplish effective science. * Explicates how hypotheses and theories are to be evaluated. * Suggests that the proper approach to devising and evaluating theories is by abduction, not by induction or deduction alone.

Attempts to offer a balance between an overview of Attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of Attention have developed. This book highlights issues and findings while giving details of experimental studies, models, and theories. It includes chapter previews, chapter summaries, key words, a glossary, and tables.