Cognitive Psychology

by Sternberg, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780495506294
• ISBN10: 049550629X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780534514211, 9781111344764
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

With an accessible, easy-to-understand writing style, the fifth edition of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY will give you the tools you need to be successful in the course! This text covers cognitive neuroscience, attention and consciousness, perception, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem-solving and creativity, decision-making and reasoning, cognitive development, and intelligence. Common themes at the end of every chapter will help you spend more time studying important information and less time trying to figure out what you need to know. The author provides a "from lab to life" approach covering theory and lab and field research, as well as applications to everyday life.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience

Perception

Attention and Consciousness

Memory: Models and Research Methods

Memory Processes

Representation and Manipulation of Knowledge in Memory: Images and Propositions

Representation and Organization of Knowledge in Memory: Concepts, Categories, Networks, and Schemas

Language: Nature and Acquisition

Language in Context

Problem Solving and Creativity

Decision Making and Reasoning

Human and Artificial

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