Readings in Cognitive Psychology Applications, Connections, and Individual Differences

by Robinson-Riegler, Bridget; Robinson-Riegler, Greg L.

• ISBN13: 9780205358670
• ISBN10: 0205358675
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This reader offers articles that students can relate to several different facets of cognition, as well as other sub-disciplines of psychology. Topics such as the distinction between top-down and bottom-up processing, divided attention, proactive interference, language learnability, and expertise are presented in these up-to-date, highly informative, and interesting articles. This is a research reader students will find interesting, applicable, and extremely relevant to their course and lives. Students will get a good deal of exposure to the fundamental concepts that have helped define the field of cognitive psychology.

Table of Contents

Perception, Attention, And Working Memory

(1992) An investigation of the subliminal embed effect on multiple measures of advertising effectiveness. Psychology and Marketing, 9, 157-173

(1996) Reduced top-down influence in auditory perceptual organization in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 663-667.

(2001) Driven to distraction: Dual-task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. Psychological Science, 12, 462-466

(2001) The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 331-335

Memory Processes And Distortions

(1997) Marking time: The effect of timing on appointment keeping. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 361-368

(2001) Memory for humorous cartoons. Memory and Cognition, 29, 305-311

(1997) Music while you work: The differential distraction of background music on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 445-455

(2002) Make my memory: How advertising can change our memories of the past. Psychology and Marketing, 19, 1-23

(1998) Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 449-453

(2002) Twins dispute memory ownership: A new false memory phenomenon. Memory and Cognition, 29, 779-788

Language Processes

(2002) Overhearing a language during childhood. Psychological Science, 13, 238-243

(2001) Listeners' use of um and uh in speech comprehension. Memory and Cognition, 29, 320-326

(2000) Working memory, inhibitory control, and reading disability. Memory and Cognition, 28, 8-17

(1997) In search of gender neutrality: Is singular they a cognitively efficient substitute for generic he? Psychological Science, 8, 106-111

Reasoning, Decision Making, And Problem Solving

(2000) Birds of a feather flock conjointly (?): Rhyme as reason in aphorisms. Psychological Science, 11, 424-428

(2001) Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12, 258-261

(2000) " I knew we would win": Hindsight bias for favorable and unfavorable team decision outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 264-272

(1990) Elaborative memory strategies of professional actors. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 417-427

(1998) The effects of positive and negative mood on divergent thinking performance. Creativity Research Journal, 11, 165-172

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