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Current Directions in Cognitive Science (Readings from the American Psychological Society)

by Barbara A. Spellman

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Publisher Comments:

This new and exciting Association for Psychological Science reader, edited by Barbara A. Spellman and Daniel T. Willingham, both of University of Virginia, includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessible Current Directions in Psychological Science journal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective—from a reliable source—about today's most current and pressing issues in cognitive science.

Table of Contents

VISUAL PERCEPTION

Mack, A. Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing.

Behrmann, M. The Mind’s Eye Mapped Onto the Brain’s Matter.

Martino, G. and Marks, L. E. Synesthesia: Strong and Weak.

 

MEMORY

Garry, M. and Polaschek, D. L. L. Imagination and Memory.

McNally, R. J. Recovering Memories of Trauma: A View from the Laboratory.

Wells, G. L., Olson, E. A., and Charman, S. D. The Confidence of Eyewitnesses in Their Identifications from Lineups.

Brown, V. R. and Paulus, P. B. Making Group Brainstorming More Effective: Recommendations from an Associative Memory Perspective.

 

ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING AND CAUSAL REASONING

Öehman, A. and Mineka, S. The Malicious Serpent: Snakes as a Prototypical Stimulus For an Evolved Module of Fear.

Thompson, S. C. Illusions of Control: How We Overestimate Our Personal Influence.

Spellman, B. A. and Mandel, D. R. When Possibility Informs Reality: Counterfactual Thinking as a Cue to Causality.

Norenzayan, A. and Nisbett, R. E. Culture and Causal Cognition.

 

SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS

Klahr, D. and Simon, H. A. What Have Psychologists (and Others) Discovered About the Process of Scientific Discovery?

Siegler, R. S. Unconscious Insights.

Mellers, B. A. and McGraw, A. P. Anticipated Emotions as Guides to Choice.

Yaniv, I. The Benefit of Additional Opinions.

 

LANGUAGE

Saffran, J. R. Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms and Constraints.

Landauer, T. K. Learning and Representing Verbal Meaning: The Latent Semantic Analysis Theory.

Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., and Ferraro, V. Good-enough Representations In Language Comprehension.

Zwaan, R. A. Situation Models: The Mental Leap Into Imagined Worlds.

 

MINDS AND BRAINS

Miller, G. A. and Keller, J. Psychology and Neuroscience: Making Peace.

Roser, M. and Gazzaniga, M. S. Automatic Brains–Interpretative Minds.

Povinelli, D. J. and Bering, J. M. The Mentality of Apes Revisited.

Nickerson, R. S. The Projective Way of Knowing: A Useful Heuristic That Sometimes Misleads.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780205579617
Author:
Spellman, Barbara A.
Publisher:
Pearson Prentice Hall
Editor:
Willingham, Daniel T.
Author:
Willingham, Daniel T.
Author:
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Subject:
Cognitive Psychology
Subject:
General Psychology & Psychiatry
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Readings from the American Psychological Society
Publication Date:
June 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
184
Dimensions:
8.96x6.46x.41 in. .53 lbs.

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