Understanding Events

Understanding Events
Author: Thomas F. Shipley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2008-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0198040709

We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on event perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception--in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science--has progressed without much interaction. This volume is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. The book will provide professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Understanding Digital Events

Understanding Digital Events
Author: David Kreps
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-05-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429627025

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy, media, and user experience practice to provide a new account of the technological or virtual world of today. An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary digital experience, this volume will appeal to scholars of philosophy, science and technology studies and information systems.

Understanding Events

Understanding Events
Author: Thomas F. Shipley
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2008-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Social Cognition

Social Cognition
Author: David L. Hamilton
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1051
Release: 2020-11-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1529742366

Social cognition is an approach to understanding how people think about people and events. We are constantly processing information to navigate the world we live in. The authors will guide your students, using examples and up-to-date studies, through this approach; from explaining the processes themselves right through to demonstrating the role cognitive processes play in our social lives. With chapters on the following processes: · Memory · Judgement · Attention · Attribution · Evaluation · Automatic processing. This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping.

Understanding Actions, States, and Events

Understanding Actions, States, and Events
Author: Susan Douglas
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614510865

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism – namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs also encode information about the number and type of participants and the temporal location of the activity/event. Moreover, the acquisition of verb meanings is often dependent on other cognitive skills, such as the recognition that human beings have beliefs and desires which motivate their actions. All these are areas which are widely considered problematic for children with autism and continue to generate much discussion among researchers and clinicians. This investigation is among the first studies of its type, offering new insights into the process of language acquisition in autism.

Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events

Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events
Author: Jeff Over
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2005-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080457843

The Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic intervals are among the most dynamic episodes of Earth history, marked by large secular changes in continental ecosystems, dramatic fluctuations in ocean oxygenation, major phases of biotic turnover, volcanism, bolide impact events, and rapid fluctuations in stable isotope systems and sea level. This volume highlights contributions from a broad range of geological sub-disciplines currently striving to understand these critical intervals of geologically rapid, global-scale changes. * Provides updated, current models for the mid-Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic mass extinction episodes * Highlights several new analytical approaches for developing quantitative datasets * Takes an integrated approach presenting datasets from a broad range of sub-disciplines

Understanding Precarious Lives. Empathy for the Criminal in Pornography and The Events

Understanding Precarious Lives. Empathy for the Criminal in Pornography and The Events
Author: Carolina González Terrés
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 8491688889

Many claim the contemporary world lacks empathy, this being the reason for all the atrocities in it. When thinking about the perpetrators of such brutalities, it is easy to assume they cannot acknowledge others as their equals. But is a lack of empathy a prerequisite for becoming a criminal? Would empathy then be preemptive of murder? When something terrible happens, we may be tempted to look for the source of violence exclusively in the criminals. However, when talking about human beings and the motives for their actions, one has to delve deeper. In Simon Stephens’s Pornography and David Greig’s The Events, two different crimes against humanity are portrayed. The aim of this book is to analyse the way in which the perpetrators are depicted in each play and whether the audience is asked to challenge the initial impulse to dehumanise them. Will the multifaceted nature of empathy be explored to the extent of debunking the myth of its simplicity?

Events Psychology

Events Psychology
Author: Silvia Hartmann, Dr
Publisher: DragonRising Publishing
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009
Genre: Personality development
ISBN: 1873483651

Silvia Hartmann, already famed for her work on EFT, EmoTrance, Project Sanctuary and The Genius Symbols, has discovered core principles of human psychology which finally answers questions about who we are and ultimately how we can become the best we can be without our own personal limitations. This research is called "Events Psychology" and is the next step for the field of psychology of understanding ourselves and other people.

Understanding Loss and Grief

Understanding Loss and Grief
Author: Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1442222743

A comprehensive self-help book about the different kinds of loss we experience over a lifetime, and the sorrow that accompanies them. In this guide, psychotherapist Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo considers the different ways we experience loss and grief, in all their variations—whether through the actual death of a loved one, including a beloved pet, or losses experienced through such events as divorce, medical problems, and natural disasters—and examines what these experiences do to us psychologically, biologically, and emotionally. She also offers understanding and the needed tools for moving through the various experiences, both big and small. Everyone is touched by loss. It begins early in our lives and continues through many ages and stages. Through the use of real-life vignettes, and fascinating facts on loss and grief within the American cultural landscape, this book provides both insight and comfort.