266p yellow laminated hardback, very good indeed

Human Memory: Theory, Research, and Individual Differences

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Eysenck, Michael W.

Psychology & Counseling

Pergamon Pr

Simply Psychology

Simply Psychology, fifth edition, is an engaging and reader-friendly introduction to the key principles of psychology. Organised around the major approaches to the subject, it covers biological, developmental, social, and cognitive psychology, as well as individual differences. 
Supported by a wealth of colour illustrations, this textbook provides students new to the subject with straightforward and clear explanations of all the key topics within contemporary psychology. The features spread throughout the book are designed to help readers to engage with the material and include: 
highlighted key terms and comprehensive glossary 
chapter introductions and summaries 
further reading and evaluation boxes 
structured essay and self-assessment questions 
case studies and examples illustrating the application of key theories 
a practical chapter that offers students tips and advice to help them improve their study skills and get the most out of the book and their studies. 
Additional features new to the fifth edition include: 
new quizzes 
updated further reading advice 
an extra chapter on clinical psychology 
an expanded section on quantitative research methods 
additional coverage of popular topics, like sleep. 
This is an ideal text for students new to psychology and those in related fields such as nursing, social work, and the social sciences.

Mental Health

Routledge

AI vs Humans

The great majority of books on artificial intelligence are written by AI experts who understandably focus on its achievements and potential transformative effects on society. In contrast, AI vs Humans is written by two psychologists (Michael and Christine Eysenck) whose perspective on AI (including robotics) is based on their knowledge and understanding of human cognition. 
This book evaluates the strengths and limitations of people and AI. The authors’ expertise equips them well to consider this by seeing how well (or badly) AI compares to human intelligence. They accept that AI matches or exceeds human ability in many spheres such as mathematical calculations, complex games (e.g., chess, Go, and poker), diagnosis from medical images, and robotic surgery. 
However, the human tendency to anthropomorphise has led many people to claim mistakenly that AI systems can think, infer, reason, and understand while engaging in information processing. In fact, such systems lack all those cognitive skills and are also deficient in the quintessentially human abilities of flexibility of thinking and general intelligence. 
At a time when human commitment to AI appears unstoppable, this up-to-date book advocates a symbiotic and co-operative relationship between humans and AI. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in AI and human cognition.

Computers & Technology

Eysenck, Christine

Computer Science

H. J. Eysenck This book is not an introduction to personality research, it is not a textbook, and above all it is not a model of personality. The title, A Modelfor Personality, was chosen on purpose to indicate that we are here concerned with a discussion of how models in this field ought to be constructed, what their functions were, and whether such models or paradigms could with advantage be produced at this stage of development. One particular aspect of personality, extraversion introversion (E), has been chosen to exemplify the desiderata which emerge from such a discussion. It is not suggested that personality and E are synonymous - merely that this particular dimension is perhaps better known than any other, has had more experimental work done on it than any other and has acquired a better theoretical substructure, and more links with genetics and physiology, than any other. Hence it seems most likely to serve as an example of how a satisfactory model of personality might ultimately be constructed, i. e. by analogy with E. Other dimensions of personality, such as neuroticism-stability or psycho tic ism-superego functioning, are mentioned in the discussion, but only when they overlap or interrelate with E. The book uses E as an example to illustrate the way in which a model of personality can be constructed, but it is in no way a summary of all that is known about E.

A Model for Personality

Springer, Verlag

The thinker who has a mortal fear of being wrong will give all that is valuable in himself to that little ambition. Walter Lippmann (1914) Psychology has always been plagued by passing fads and fan­ cies to a greater extent than is seemly in a scientific discipline. Over the past few years the Zeitgeist can be summed up by the two words 'cognitive psychology'. Indeed, a recent poll of academic psychologists in American indicated that over 80% of them regarded themselves as cognitive psychologists! Cognitive psychology is in the ascendant, but it has never been clear to me that it has addressed all of the appropriate is­ sues. In particular, information processing in the real world (and even in the laboratory) occurs within a motivational and emotional context, but cognitive psychologists usually main­ tain the convenient fiction that cognition can fruitfully be stud­ ied in isolation. The main reason for writing this book was to at­ tempt to demonstrate that there can be a useful cross-fertiliza­ tion between cognitive and motivational-emotional psycholo­ gy and that there are already tantalizing glimpses of the poten­ tial advantages of such inter-disciplinary research. The ideas of Donald Broadbent and his associates have exer­ cised a formative influence during the writing of this book. They discovered some years ago that there are intriguing simi­ larities (as well as differences) in the effects on performance of such apparently quite disparate factors as white noise, time of day, introversion-extraversion and incentive.

Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance

Psychology: An Integrated Approach is an exciting new introductory text for all students of psychology. It provides a comprehensive account of the discipline combined with the most up-to-date research and coverage of contemporary debates. Written by Michael Eysenck in conjunction with an international team of distinguished psychologists, Psychology: An Integrated Approach combines an accessible style with indepth coverage and will prove invaluable for students and lecturers alike. Contributors include: Peter Bryant (Oxford University), Hugh Coolican (Nene College), Tim Dalgleish (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge), Therese van Elderen (Leiden University), Michael Frese (Amsterdam University), Evanthia Lyons (University of Surrey), Andrew McLeod (Royal Holloway), Stan Maes (Leiden University), Helena Matute (Bilbao University), Lynne Millward (Surrey University, Edmund Rolls (Oxford University), Peter E Smith (Goldsmiths College), Fred Toates (Open University).

Psychology: An Integrated Approach

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention. The cognitive perspective is also adopted in this book, but the approach represents a development and extension of earlier ones. For example, most previous theories and research have been based on anxiety either in clinical or in normal groups. In contrast, one of the central themes of this book is that there are great advantages to be gained from a joint consideration of clinical and normal anxiety. Another theme of this book is that it is of major importance to establish whether or not there is a cognitive vulnerability factor which is associated with at least some forms of clinical anxiety. It is argued (with supporting evidence) that there is a latent cognitive vulnerability factor for generalized anxiety disorder which manifests itself under stressful conditions. This vulnerability factor is characterized by hypervigilance, and is found predominantly in normals high in the personality dimension of trait anxiety. The scope of the book extends to the effects of anxiety on performance and to the phenomenon of worry, which is regarded as the cognitive component of anxiety. In both cases, a new theoretical framework is presented.

Anxiety: The Cognitive Perspective (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)

Psychology Press

What is happiness? How can you tell if you are happy? How important are love, sex, money, and family relationships? Can happiness last? Is there a blueprint for happiness? Is unhappiness a terminal illness? Is there a 'happiness gene'? This book, by one of Britain's leading psychologists, is based fairly and squarely on scientific evidence, and provides realistic insights into these questions. Michael Eysenck is Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of numerous academic and popular books and articles, including Mindwatching and Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook.

Happiness: Facts And Myths

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Human Memory: Theory, Research, and Individual Differences

Simply Psychology

Simply Psychology

AI vs Humans

AI vs Humans

A Model for Personality

Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance

Psychology: An Integrated Approach

Anxiety: The Cognitive Perspective (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)

Happiness: Facts And Myths