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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Verbal and spatial ability of children and their parents
Source: Plomin, R. and DeFries, J.C., The genetics of cognitive abilities and disabilities, Scientific American, 1998, 278, 5, 44, reprinted by permission of Jennifer C. Christiansen.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Population of the USA in 1950 (top) and estimated population in 2030 (bottom)
Source: Quinn, J.F., Entitlements and the federal budget. © 1996 The National Academy on an Aging Society, a policy institute of the Gerontological Society of America. May 1996. Reproduced with permission.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Neuronal characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. I
Source: Beatty, J. (1995). Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience. New York: Brown and Benchmark/William C. Brown Communications Inc., 1995. Reprinted with permission.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Neuronal characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. II
Source: Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Collins and Quillian’s model of the hierarchical organisation
of concepts in semantic memory
Source: Solso, R.L., Cognitive Psychology (2nd edition). © 1988 by Allyn & Bacon. After Collins and Quillian, 1969. Reproduced with permission.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
A card sorting task
Source: Pinel, J., Biopsychology (3rd edition). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. © 1997 Pearson Education. Reproduced by permission.
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Logical errors in inductive reasoning
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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006
Mood disorders in a sample of 100 writers
Source: Post, F., Verbal creativity, depression and alcoholism, British Journal of Psychiatry, 1996, 168, 545–555. Reproduced with permission of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.