There has been a growing popular fascination with how experts make rapid and effective
decisions. This interest has been paralleled in various scientific research communities …

One very active research tradition in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) attempts
to establish causal relationships between environmental factors and learning. These include …

“Know thyself,” a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best
path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our …

Cognitive approaches to emotional disorders are now common in clinical psychology, but
abnormalities in cognitive processing (with which this book is concerned) are still not well …

ABSTRACT A number of issues concerning the role of consciousness in foreign language
learning are identified, defined, and shown to be essentially the same as issues that have …

Abstract The" conscious" vs." unconscious" controversy is a core issue in both second and
foreign language pedagogy and applied linguistics theory, but at the present time there is no …

The so-called bias blind spot arises when people report that thinking biases are more
prevalent in others than in themselves. Bias turns out to be relatively easy to recognize in the …

Implicit learning is nonepisodic learning of complex information in an incidental manner,
without awareness of what has been learned. Implicit learning experiments use 3 different …

A number of ways of taxonomizing human learning have been proposed. We examine the
evidence for one such proposal, namely, that there exist independent explicit and implicit …

Although commentators periodically declare that Freud is dead, his repeated burials lie on
shaky grounds. Critics typically attack an archaic version of psychodynamic theory that most …