Behavior Analysis and Learning
This is a comprehensive presentation of the fundamental principles of
experimental and applied behavior analysis with some examples of
applications in education, therapy and cultural practices.
The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science, based on speculative topographic models and psychodynamics formulations. The two antithetical avenues of research, premises, and dynamic hypotheses, have evolved in a polarization of neuroscience. This is partly responsible for the failure to unravel the transformation of neural events into mental images: how matter becomes imagination, and vice versa. The Rosetta Stone to the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms, and adds new dimensions to our perception of neuropsychological events; how the two different scientific metaphors are similar in what they describe; and how the awareness and application of these perspectives are helpful in getting a deeper theoretical grasp on major mental events, better understanding single minds, and formulating a more integrated therapeutic intervention.
Origins_How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies and the Universe began
In the last decade, there has been a revolution in observational
astronomy, which has meant that we are very close to answering three of
the four big origin questions, of how the planets, stars, galaxies,
and the universe itself were formed. As recently as 1995 we knew of
only one planetary system: our own. Now we know of over a hundred, and
this knowledge has helped to reveal how planetary systems form.
Within the last four years, astronomers have
discovered that the universe is geometrically flat and that its
expansion is accelerating, fuelled by a mysterious dark energy. This
revolution in our observational knowledge of the universe, including
the first precise measurements of its age and matter and energy
content, has been vital groundwork for new ideas about its origin,
including the possibility that the universe originated in a larger
meta-universe .
Origin Questions describes, at an understandable and
basically non-mathematical level, the origin questions and the recent
steps that have been taken towards answering them.
Learning From Others: International Comparisons in Education
This book describes a number of international comparat
ive studiesof pupils' achievement, and examines the factors associated with
successful teaching and learning and with school effectiveness. It
describes the usefulness of such studies for policy makers, test
designers, researchers and teachers, while offering a realistic and
critical account of their limitations. Both large and small scale
studies are considered, and particular attention is given to the
contribution that international comparative research can make to
raising the standards of work, especially in school science and
mathematics, in different educational systems.
Mathematical Statistics: Exercises and Solutions
This book consists of solutions to four hundred exercises, over 95% of
which are in the author’s Mathematical Statistics. That textbook covers
topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing
for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. On the other hand, this is a
stand-alone book, since exercises and solutions are comprehensible
independently of their source. Many solutions involve standard
exercises that appear in other textbooks listed in the references. To
help readers not using this book with Mathematical Statistics, lists of
notation, terminology, and some probability distributions are given in
the front of the book.
