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This textbook is good for getting extra information that I didn't get in class.
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Overview
Succeed in the course with COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN AND OUT OF THE LABORATORY! This understandable cognitive psychology textbook provides you with the tools you need to master the concepts and improve your performance on exams. With everyday examples, the author presents brain function - an abstract and difficult topic - in a clear and manageable way. Key terms, review questions, CogLab exercises, and Web resources give you many new ways to approach the topics covered in the text. Through hands-on practice and reinforcement, you'll learn both the importance and personal relevance of understanding brain function.
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A textbook for a one-term undergraduate course for students who have completed the introductory psychology course. Galotti includes both the traditional topics in cognition and some topics that are usually omitted--such as cognitive development, gender differences, and cross-cultural approaches to cognition--to put the traditional topics in broader perspective. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
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Meet the Author
Kathleen M. Galotti holds a B.A. in psychology and economics from Wellesley College, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in psychology and an M.S.E. in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. At Carleton College she holds the title Professor of Cognitive Science, and serves as the director of that interdisciplinary program, which she helped establish in 1989. She also is a former department chair of Psychology. She teaches courses in cognitive and developmental psychology and cognitive science, and has also taught courses in statistics and introductory psychology. Dr. Galotti is the author or coauthor of dozens of studies in cognitive and developmental psychology. Her research centers on the development of reasoning and decision-making skills from the preschool period through adulthood and on the styles with which adolescents and adults plan for the future, make important life commitments, and learn new information. Her research has been funded through the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She is the author of Making Decisions That Matter: How People Face Important Life Choices (Erlbaum, 2002), as well as a textbook, Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory (4th ed) (Cengage, 2008). She has also authored or co-authored dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: History, Methods, and Paradigms. Chapter 2: The Brain: An Overview of Structure and Function. Chapter 3: Perceiving Objects and Recognizing Patterns. Chapter 4: Paying Attention. Chapter 5: Forming and Using New Memory Traces. Chapter 6: Retrieving Memories from Long-Term Storage. Chapter 7: Memory for General Knowledge. Chapter 8: Concepts and Categorization. Chapter 9: Visual Imagery and Spatial Cognition. Chapter 10: Language. Chapter 11: Thinking and Problem Solving. Chapter 12: Reasoning. Chapter 13: Making Decisions. Chapter 14: Cognitive Development Through Adolescence. Chapter 15: Individual, Aging, and Gender Differences in Cognition. Chapter 16: Cognition in Cross-Cultural Perspective.