Summaries per chapter with A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters

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• Chapter 1 - What are the nature and varieties of human error?
• Chapter 2 - Plans lead to Actions and Consequences
• Chapter 3 - Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances
• Chapter 4 - Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded
• Chapter 5 - Individual Differences
• Chapter 6 - SIML in the Courtroom
• Chapter 7- The New Freudian Slip
• Chapter 8 - Failures in planning
• Chapter 9 - Violations
• Chapter 10 - Organizational Accidents
• Chapter 11 - Resisting Change in Organizational Culture
• Chapter 12 - Medical Error
• Chapter 13 - Disclosing Error
• Chapter 14 - Looking back

Summaries per chapter with Behavioral Interventions in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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• Chapter 1 - Overview on Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Chapter 2 - What are the principles, goals and structure of initial assessment sessions?
• Chapter 3 - How does the process of behavioral case formulation and treatment planning work?
• Chapter 4 - How can behavior be changed by changing the environment?
• Chapter 8 - How can behavior be activated?
• Chapter 9 - Which interventions based on exposure exist?

Summaries per chapter with Brain and Cognition (UT Twente)

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• Chapter 0 -  What is the book 'Brain and Cognition' about?
• Chapter 1 - What is biopsychology and what does the biopsychological approach entail?
• Chapter 2 - How do the evolutionary perspective, genetics and experience help us study the biology of behavior?
• Chapter 3 - What does the anatomy of the nervous system look like?
• Chapter 4 - How are neurons able to send and receive signals?
• Chapter 5 - What different research methods are used in the field of biopsychology?
• Chapter 6 - How does the visual system work?
• Chapter 7 - How does the sensorimotor system allow for movement?
• Chapter 8 - What are the functions of sleep, dreaming and circadian rhythms?
• Chapter 9 - What does the field of cognitive psychology entail?
• Chapter 10 - How do sensations lead to perceptual experiences?

Summaries per chapter with Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Basics and Beyond

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• Chapter 1 - What are the fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
• Chapter 2 - What does treatment look like?
• Chapter 3 - What is cognitive conceptualization?
• Chapter 4 - What is an evaluation session?
• Chapter 5 - How is the first therapy session structured?
• Chapter 6 - What is behavioral activation?
• Chapter 7 - How are follow-up sessions structured?
• Chapter 8 - What sort of problems may occur when structuring a therapy session?
• Chapter 9 - How can one identify automatic thoughts?
• Chapter 10 - How can a therapist identify emotions?
• Chapter 11 - How does the evaluation of automatic thoughts work?
• Chapter 12 - What are some ways to respond to automatic thoughts?
• Chapter 13 - How can intermediate beliefs be identified and modified?
• Chapter 14 - How can core beliefs be identified

Summaries per chapter with Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain

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• Chapter 0 - What is Goswami's view on cognitive development?
• Chapter 1 - What kinds of knowledge are central to cognitive development?
• Chapter 2 - How does perception develop?
• Chapter 3 - How do children learn?
• Chapter 4 - How are social cognition, mental representation and theory of mind related?
• Chapter 5 - How are conceptual development and the biological world related?
• Chapter 6 - How does language develop cognitively?
• Chapter 7 - How are causal reasoning and the human brain related?
• Chapter 8 - How does memory develop?
• Chapter 9 - How do metacognition, reasoning and executive function develop?
• Chapter 10 - How do reading and mathematical skills develop?
• Chapter 11 - What theories of cognitive development are there?

Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of Cognitive Psychology by Goldstein & Van Hooff

Summaries per chapter with Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach

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• Chapter 0 - How is Developmental neuropsychology: A clinical approach structured?
• Chapter 1 - What is child neuropsychology and how has it developed over the past twenty years?
• Chapter 2 - What are the main characteristics of brain development?
• Chapter 3 - What is the influence of early brain insult on cognitive and social development?
• Chapter 4 - What is currently known about recovery from early brain insult?
• Chapter 5 - How do genetic and metabolic disordersdiffer from traumatic brain injury?
• Chapter 6 - What is the relationship between brain dysmorphology and functional outcomes?
• Chapter 7 - How does the study of common perinatal brain insults facilitate knowledge about the principles of post-natal neural development?
• Chapter 8 - What are the main characteristics of neurodevelopmental disorders?
• Chapter 9 - What are the characteristics and consequences

Summaries per chapter with Neuropsychological Assessment

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Summaries per chapter with Sensation and Perception

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1. Tina

Tina is a girl and she is seven years old. She lives with her younger brother, sister and her mother.  According to her teachers, Tina behaves 'aggressively, improperly and exhibitionistically'. She is unable to keep her attention during class and refuses to follow instructions. She had been abused since she was four years old until the age of six by the son of her babysitter. This son tied up the children, raped them and penetrated them anally using objects.

What are the two systems? - Part 1

What is the distinction between System 1 and System 2? – Chapter 1

When looking at a picture of a blonde woman with an angry expression on her face, you immediately notice her having blonde hair and being angry. You get the feeling she is about to say something negative in a loud voice. This premonition of her