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9780205579617

Current Directions in Cognitive Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205579617

  • ISBN10:

    0205579612

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-01-01
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This new and exciting Association for Psychological Science reader, edited by Barbara A. Spellman and Daniel T. Willingham, both ofUniversity of Virginia,includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. 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
Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing
The Mind's Eye Mapped Onto the Brain's Matter
Synesthesia: Strong and Weak
Memory
Imagination and Memory
Recovering Memories of Trauma: A View from the Laboratory
The Confidence of Eyewitnesses in Their Identifications from Lineups
Making Group Brainstorming More Effective: Recommendations from an Associative Memory Perspective
Associative Learning and Causal Reasoning
The Malicious Serpent: Snakes as a Prototypical Stimulus For an Evolved Module of Fear
Illusions of Control: How We Overestimate Our Personal Influence
When Possibility Informs Reality: Counterfactual Thinking as a Cue to Causality
Culture and Causal Cognition
Solving Problems and Making Decisions
What Have Psychologists (and Others) Discovered About the Process of Scientific Discovery?
Unconscious Insights
Anticipated Emotions as Guides to Choice
The Benefit of Additional Opinions
Language
Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms and Constraints
Learning and Representing Verbal Meaning: The Latent Semantic Analysis Theory
Good-enough Representations In Language Comprehension
Situation Models:The Mental Leap Into Imagined Worlds
Minds and Brains
Psychology and Neuroscience: Making Peace
Automatic Brains-Interpretative Minds
The Mentality of Apes Revisited
The Projective Way of Knowing: A Useful Heuristic That Sometimes Misleads
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