Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 1997

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 1997

Creative hypothesis generating in psychology: some useful heuristics.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: creativity, heuristics, methodology, theory construction CONTENTS I. HEURISTICS REQUIRING SENSITIVITY TO PROVOCATIVE NATURAL OCCURRENCES A. Recognizing and Accounting for the Oddity of Occurrences B....

Women and career development: a decade of research.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: vocational behavior, gender issues, career counseling, occupational choice INTRODUCTION SELF-CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Development of an Individual Identity Development of Educational and Occupational Aspirations Ideas...

Human-computer interaction: psychology as a science of design.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: usability, design, user models, applied psychology, human factors CONTENTS THE EMERGENCE OF USABILITY Software Psychology Iterative Development User Models USER-CENTERED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT Usability...

Neurobiological constraints on behavioral models of motivation.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: reward, aversion, hedonics, dopamine, deprivation CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MODELS OF MOTIVATION The Dopamine Hypothesis Nondeprived/Deprived Hypothesis Saliency Attribution ARE THE MODELS OF MOTIVATION REDUCIBLE TO...

Music performance.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: skilled performance, musical memory, sequence production, music perception, motor skills CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Serial Order and Timing Issues Methodological Issues INTERPRETATION PLANNING Syntax of Musical Structure...

Gender, racial, ethnic, sexual, and class identities.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, multiple social identities CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GENDER IDENTIFIES RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES SEXUAL IDENTITIES CLASS IDENTITIES MULTIPLE IDENTITIES--SEEING PEOPLE AS WHOLE ...

Discourse comprehension.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: discourse processing, inferences, reading, text comprehension CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MULTIPLE LEVELS OF DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION Separation and Interaction of Levels Pragmatics and Agents of Communication...

The effects of stressful life events on depression.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: life events, stress CONTENT INTRODUCTION ESTIMATING THE SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF STRESS ON DEPRESSION Aggregate Life Event Studies Focused Studies of Individual Events A New Emphasis on Chronic Stress Future...

Language acquisition: the acquisition of linguistic structure in normal and special populations.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: prosody and phonology, function words, morphological decomposition, special populations, age of acquisition CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ACQUISITION IN NORMAL POPULATIONS Prosodic and Phonological Information Function Words ...

Families as systems.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: family systems, family processes, developmental theory CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FAMILY AS AN ORGANIZED WHOLE, WITH INTERDEPENDENT COMPONENTS AND HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE Individual Functioning and Parent-Child Relationships ...

Visual attention: control, representation, and time course.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: attention, cognition, human subjects, perception, psychophysics, reaction time, vision, visual search CONTENTS INTRODUCTION STIMULUS-DRIVEN AND GOAL-DIRECTED CONTROL OF ATTENTION Feature Singletons and Attentional Capture ...

Personnel selection.
January 1, 1997... KEYWORDS: performance, validity, industrial/organizational psychology CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PERFORMANCE AND CRITERIA PREDICTORS: CONTENT Abilities and Achievement Personality PREDICTORS: PROCESS Assessment Centers ...

The use of animal models to study the effects of aging on cognition.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: memory, hippocampus, medial temporal lobe, frontal lobe, attention CONTENTS INTRODUCTION NORMAL AGING AND ANIMAL MODELS MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE SYSTEM Psychological Functions of the Medial Temporal Lobe Psychological Functions...

Key issues in the development of aggression and violence from childhood to early adulthood.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: gender differences, prediction CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MANIFESTATIONS OF AGGRESSION FROM INFANCY TO EARLY ADULTHOOD Infancy Toddlerhood The early School Years Adolescence and Early Adulthood PREDICTION AND...

Health psychology: what is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin?
January 1, 1997... Keywords: family, social support, community, work CONTENTS HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT IS AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND HOW DOES IT GET UNDER THE SKIN? SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND RACE COMMUNITY Chronic Stress Mental...

Psychosocial treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: a critical review.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: PTSD, psychosocial treatments CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA OF PTSD PREVALENCE OF PTSD IN VARIOUS TRAUMA POPULATIONS MEASURES Interviews Self-Report Measures "GOLD STANDARDS" FOR TREATMENT OUTCOME STUDY...

Psychobiological models of hippocampal function in learning and memory.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: hippocampus, computation, neural networks CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE HIPPOCAMPAL REGION IS CRITICAL FOR LEARNING AND MEMORY Hippocampal Damage Produces Amnesia in Human Beings Hippocampal Damage Produces Varied Memory...

Organizational behavior in the new organizational era.
January 1, 1997... KEYWORDS: employment relations, performance paradox, organizational change, organizational reaming, organizing, self-management This chapter is dedicated to Herbert Simon on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. CONTENTS...

Declarative memory: insights from cognitive neurobiology.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: amnesia, learning, cognitive neuroscience, hippocampus, natural memory, single neurons CONTENTS INTRODUCTION IS DECLARATIVE MEMORY A "MEMORY SYSTEM"? Neuropsychological Dissociations of Declarative and Procedural ...

What's elementary about associative learning?
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: Pavlovian conditioning, Thorndikean conditioning, association formation, learned behavior, conditioned responding CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AND BROAD OVERVIEW What Is the Domain of Elementary Associative Learning? What Is the...

Attitudes and attitude change.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: persuasion, evaluation, bias, attitude structure, affect CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ATTITUDE BASES AND STRUCTURE Structural and Functional Bases of Attitudes Individual Differences as a Basis of Attitudes ATTITUDE CHANGE...

Central cholinergic systems and cognition.
January 1, 1997... KEY WORDS: acetylcholine, basal forebrain, learning, memory, attention CONTENTS INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES FUNCTIONS OF THE NUCLEUS BASALIS CORTICAL CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM Studies of Learning and Memory: Rodents Studies of...