Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Handbook of Psychology Preface xiIrving B. WeinerVolume Preface xiiiAlice F. Healy and Robert W. ProctorContributors xviiI MODULATORY PROCESSES 11 CONSCIOUSNESS 3Ilya Farber and William P. Banks2 MOTIVATION 32Bill P. Godsil and Michael S. Fanselow3 AFFECTIVE INFLUENCES ON COGNITION: MOOD CONGRUENCE, MOOD DEPENDENCE, AND MOOD EFFECTS ON PROCESSING STRATEGIES 61Joseph P. Forgas and Eric EichII SENSORY PROCESSES 834 VISUAL PERCEPTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 85Michael Kubovy, William Epstein, and Sergei Gepshtein5 AUDITION 120William A. Yost6 TOUCH 152Roberta L. Klatzky and Susan J. LedermanIII PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES 1797 VISUAL OBJECT PROCESSING 181Peter Ulric Tse and Stephen E. Palmer8 DEPTH PERCEPTION AND THE PERCEPTION OF EVENTS 212Dennis R. Proffitt and Corrado Caudek9 SPEECH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION 236Carol A. Fowler and Khalil IskarousIV ATTENTION AND ACTION PROCESSES 26510 SELECTIVE ATTENTION 267Dominique Lamy, Andrew B. Leber, and Howard E. Egeth11 ACTION SELECTION 295Robert W. Proctor and Kim-Phuong L. Vu12 MOTOR CONTROL 320Herbert Heuer and Cristina MassenV ELEMENTARY LEARNING AND MEMORY PROCESSES 35513 CONDITIONING AND LEARNING 357Ralph R. Miller and Randolph C. Grace14 ANIMAL COGNITION 393E. J. Capaldi and Ana P. G. Martins15 SENSORY AND WORKING MEMORY 419James S. Nairne and Ian NeathVI COMPLEX LEARNING AND MEMORY PROCESSES 44716 SEMANTIC MEMORY AND PRIMING 449Timothy P. McNamara17 EPISODIC AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY 472Elizabeth J. Marsh and Henry L. Roediger, III18 PROCEDURAL MEMORY AND SKILL ACQUISITION 495Addie JohnsonVII LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING 52119 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION 523Charles Clifton, Jr., Antje S. Meyer, Lee H. Wurm, and Rebecca Treiman20 READING: WORD IDENTIFICATION AND EYE MOVEMENTS 548Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, and Elizabeth R. Schotter21 TEXT COMPREHENSION AND DISCOURSE PROCESSING 578Kirsten R. Butcher and Walter KintschVIII THOUGHT PROCESSES 60522 CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIZATION 607Robert L. Goldstone, Alan Kersten, and Paulo F. Carvalho23 REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING 631Jacqueline P. Leighton and Robert J. Sternberg24 JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING 660Adele Diederich and Jerome R. BusemeyerIX APPLICATIONS 68525 APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTATION ADDRESSING PRACTICAL CONCERNS 687Raymond S. Nickerson and Richard W. PewAuthor Index 711Subject Index 749