Generative mental processes and cognitive resources : integrative research on adaptation and control /

This volume presents contributions of European and North American researchers sharing an interest in generative forms of thinking and in deployable mental resources. The special emphasis of this book is highlighting the close links that exist between apparently heterogeneous psychological domains su...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Hecker, Ulrich, Dutke, Stephan, 1959-, Sedek, Grzegorz
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic, [2000]
Subjects:	Cognition. Thought and thinking. Cognitive psychology. Mental Processes > physiology. Aging > physiology. Cognition > physiology. Thinking > physiology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Individual differences in attentional resources and social cognition : elaboration and complexity in representations of others and self / Michael Conway
Extending the theory of reasoning by mental models : tests of new predictions / Karl Christoph Klauer, Thorsten Meiser, and Birgit Naumer
Multiple representations and individual differences in generating mental models : the case of text comprehension / Stephan Dutke
Intelligence, cognitive strategies, and arousal : can we control non-cognitive factors that influence our intellect? / Edward Necka
Aging-related constraints and adaptations in social information processing / Thomas Hess
Maintaining competence in the face of resource limitations : the role of schema complexity in aging and communication / Mary Lee Hummert
Age differences in social schematicity / Fredda Blanchard-Fields and Christopher Hertzog
Predictive inferences : basic processes and biased potentiation by anxiety / Manuel G. Calvo
Worry, thoughts, and images : a new conceptualization / Joachim Stöber
Impaired systematic, higher order strategies in depression and helplessness : testing implications of the cognitive exhaustion model / Ulrich von Hecker, Grzegorz Sedek, and Daniel N. McIntosh
Capacity and procedural accounts of impaired memory in depression / Paula Hertel & Thorsten Meiser
Cognitive prerequisites for scaleable [data] : a model of impression formation / Hubert Feger
Resource limitations and process dissociations in individual differences research / Reinhold Kliegl, Ulrich Mayr, and Klaus Oberauer.