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Peer pedagogies on digital platforms :learning with Minecraft Let's Play videos
"The author develops a model of peer pedagogy by examining the popular genre of Let's Play videos as a source of learning for Minecraft players"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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How attention works :finding your way in a world full of distraction
How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other "attention architects" try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge out…
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- 9780262350976
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- 1 online resource (152 pages).
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Classification in the wild :the science and art of transparent decision making
"A "bounded rationality" approach to understanding how people classify entities in real world situations, with imperfect information and limited time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363224
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Inventive minds :Marvin Minsky on education
Six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky's former colleagues and students. Marvin Minsky was a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence whose work led to both theoretical and practical advances. His work was motivated not only by technological advancement but also by the desire to understand t…
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- 0262350270
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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What is sex?
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from tal…
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- 9780262341905
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- 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) :illustrations.
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The spider's thread :metaphor in mind, brain, and poetry
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination--a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread , Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities--poets, philosophers, and critics--and from the sciences--psychologists, neu…
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- 9780262350822
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Design unbound
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- 9780262349031
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Midbrain mutiny :the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling …
"A Bradford book."An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282642
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- 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :illustrations
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Evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology
"A Bradford book."A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selec…
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- 9780262282376
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- 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) :illustrations.
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Moral psychology.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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