Cognitive Psychology
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 331
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Cognitive Psychology is an easily accessible book for students interested in understanding the science of mental processing. It is student-friendly and contains ten chapters including:
- Historical foundations
- Language
- Attention
- Judgment and decision making
Each chapter is written by a cognitive psychologist with expertise communicating that chapter's topic to academic and non-academic audiences. This unique feature allows each chapter to have a slightly different writing style, which students will find intriguing. Throughout the book there are a plethora of applied examples used to illustrate challenging topics in cognitive psychology.
Chapter One: An Introduction To Cognitive Psychology
Chapter Two: Neural Foundations for Cognition
Chapter Three: Sensation and Perception
Chapter Four: Attention
Chapter Five: Short-Term Memory
Chapter Six: Long-Term Memory
Chapter Seven: Memory Bias
Chapter Eight: Language Production
Chapter Nine: Language Comprehension
Chapter Ten: Judgment and Decision-Making
Chapter Eleven: Careers in Cognitive Psychology