Synopses & Reviews
Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE connects the study of cognition to your everyday life. A wealth of concrete examples and illustrations help you understand the theories of cognition-driving home both the scientific importance of the theories and their relevance to your daily life. This accessible book introduces you to landmark studies and 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: THE ONLINE COGNITION LAB. Available at www.CengageBrain.com, COGLAB contains dozens of classic experiments designed to help you learn about cognitive concepts and how the mind works.
About the Author
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 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 2nd Edition (Wadsworth, 2008) 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).
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 and Retrieval. 8. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 9. Knowledge. 10. Visual Imagery. 11. Language. 12. Problem Solving. 13. Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning.