Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience

by E. Goldstein

Overview

A lot goes on in your head when you’re doing something simple like remembering (or forgetting!) to do your next assignment. Bruce Goldstein explains all this activity going on in your mind in COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE. Concrete examples and illustrations help you understand both the scientific importance of theories and their relevance to you, including research-based suggestions for better ways to study. Also available to clarify and reinforce concepts: MindTap, including CogLab 5: The Online Cognition Lab.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781337408271
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	06/18/2018
Series:	MindTap Course List Series
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

E. Bruce Goldstein is associate professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Arizona. He has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Brown University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Bruce published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention and the perception of pictures before focusing exclusively on teaching (Sensation and Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Art and Introductory Psychology) and writing textbooks. He is the co-author of SENSATION AND PERCEPTION, 11th Edition (Cengage, 2021), and editor of the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001) as well as the two-volume SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERCEPTION (Sage, 2010). In 2016, he won “The Flame Challenge” competition, sponsored by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, for his essay written for 11-year-olds on What Is Sound?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. 2. Cognitive Neuroscience. 3. Perception. 4. Attention. 5. Short-Term and Working Memory. 6. Long-Term Memory: Structure. 7. Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation. 8. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 9. Conceptual Knowledge. 10. Visual Imagery. 11. Language. 12. Problem Solving. 13. Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning.