Product Description: This collection in honour of William N. Dember provides a view of psychology as an integrated discipline instead of an ensemble of subspecialties. Dember's wide-ranging contributions to perception, attention, motivation and personality theory are rooted in the belief that, methodologically and conceptually, the whole of psychology is greater than the sum of its parts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A detailed and critical treatment of research in sustained attention or vigilance by specialists in each sub-area. Provides a thorough overview of the area with many suggestions for future research. Extensively reviews the difficult problems in real-world applications in areas such as quality control, air-traffic control, and nuclear power plant regulation...read more