Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
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Helps students understand the theories of cognition, driving home both the scientific importance of the theories and their relevance to students' daily lives. This title helps students gain an understanding of the behind the scenes' activity that happens in the mind when humans do such seemingly simple activities as perceive, remember, or think.
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Cognitive Psychology by E Goldstein
Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, International Edition connects the study of cognition to your everyday life. This accessible book introduces you to landmark studies as well as the cutting-edge research that define this fascinating field. To help you further experiment with and understand the concepts in the text, you can use COGLAB 2.0: THE ONLINE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY. Available at www.iChapters.com, COGLAB contains dozens of classic experiments designed to help you learn about cognitive concepts and how the mind works.
1Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. 2. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles. 3. Perception. 4. Attention. 5. Short-Term and Working Memory. 6. Long-Term Memory: Basic Principles. 7. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 8. Knowledge. 9. Visual Imagery. 10. Language. 11. Problem Solving. 12. Reasoning and Decision Making.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his Ph. D. in experimental psychology from Brown University, E. Bruce Goldstein attended Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department. Currently in the department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is the director of undergraduate programs in psychology, Dr. Goldstein has received many prestigious awards, including the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, for his classroom teaching and his publications. These publications cover a wide variety of topics, such as retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention, and the perception of pictures. Dr. Goldstein is also the author of SENSATION AND PERCEPTION, 8th Edition (Wadsworth, 2010) and has edited the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001). Goldstein currently teaches cognitive psychology, sensation and perception, the psychology of visual art (undergraduate), and teaching of psychology (graduate).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781111185886 |
| ISBN 10 | 1111185883 |
| Title | Cognitive Psychology |
| Author | E Goldstein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Multiple-component retail product |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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