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Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience, 6th Edition

E. Bruce Goldstein

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Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience 6th Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein
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Connecting the study of cognition to everyday life, Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 6th Edition, gives equal treatment to both the landmark studies and the cutting-edge research that define this fascinating field. Concrete examples and illustrations help students understand the theories of cognition, driving home both the scientific importance of the theories and their relevance to students' daily lives. The text’s accessible narrative style blends with an art program that makes difficult concepts understandable. Students gain a true understanding of the "behind the scenes" activity that happens in the mind when humans do seemingly simple activities such as perceiving, remembering or thinking. The text also focuses on the behavioral and physiological approaches to cognition by including physiological materials in every chapter.

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E. Bruce Goldstein

E. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Brown University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology Department at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Bruce published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention and the perception of pictures before focusing exclusively on teaching (Sensation & Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Art, Introductory Psychology) and writing textbooks. He is the co-author of, Sensation and Perception, 11th edition (Cengage, 2021) and edited the Blackwell Handbook of Perception (Blackwell, 2001) and the two-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Perception (Sage, 2010). In 2016, he won “The Flame Challenge” competition, sponsored by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, for his essay, written for 11-year-olds, on What Is Sound?

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  • New and updated topics, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, multitasking, false memories, memory disorders, imagination and aphantasia are present.
  • Research has been updated to reflect current findings, scientific consensus and hot topics from a more diverse range of researchers and participants from populations around the globe.
  • A primary goal of the text is that it is approachable and inclusive to all students, with efforts to improve the inclusivity, equity and diversity of content.
  • COGLAB, available within MindTap as well as standalone, clarifies key concepts by allowing students to participate in classic and current experiments and discover how the mind works.

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  • Clear, actionable learning objectives have been added to each chapter as well as to the Test Yourself and Think About it features, helping students focus their efforts.
  • The Think About It feature uses questions and projects to take students beyond the text, while Test Yourself questions get students to review information they've just read.
  • Emphasize themes such as the challenge of determining what's happening in the mind when the mind can't be measured directly as well as the importance of inference and prediction.
  • Demonstrations features offer illustrative exercises that show students exactly how cognition works.

Table of Contents

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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, Retrieval, and Consolidation.
8. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors.
9. Conceptual Knowledge.
10. Visual Imagery.
11. Language.
12. Problem Solving.
13. Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning.

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