A lot goes on in your head when you’re doing something simple like remembering (or forgetting!) to do your next assignment. Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 6th Edition, explains all the activity going on in your mind. Concrete examples and illustrations help you understand both the scientific importance of theories and their relevance to you, including research-based suggestions for better ways to study. MindTap, including CogLab: The Online Cognition Lab, is also available to clarify and reinforce concepts.
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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E. Bruce Goldstein
E. Bruce Goldstein is an associate professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and is affiliated with the department of psychology at the University of Arizona. He received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department at Harvard University. Dr. Goldstein has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention and the perception of pictures. The author of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 5th Edition (Cengage, 2019) and THE MIND: CONSCIOUSNESS, PREDICTION AND THE BRAIN (MIT, 2020), he edited the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001) and the two-volume SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERCEPTION (Sage, 2010). He is currently teaching courses in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, for learners over 50, at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Arizona, including Your Amazing Mind, Cognition and Aging, The Social and Emotional Mind, and The Mystery and Science of Shadows. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Brown University.
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Ralph G Hale
Ralph G. Hale is Associate Professor of Psychological Science at the University of North Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia in 2018, specializing in visual perception. He also earned two certifications in interdisciplinary university teaching, one from the University of Georgia in 2018 and another from the Association of College and University Educators in 2024. He is dedicated to undergraduate education and teaches a wide variety of psychology courses including cognitive psychology, memory, biopsychology, psychology of visual art, research methods, behavioral statistics, and senior psychology seminar. He has been recognized by his university for his commitment to quality education, winning the Teaching Excellence Award for Tenured Faculty in 2020 and the Ann Matthews Purdy Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 2023. He is also dedicated to scholarship, with an emphasis on undergraduate research. His areas of expertise are visual perception and memory with interests in visual aesthetics, errors in visual memory, and visual illusions. As principal investigator of the Hale Vision Lab, he mentors students through projects leading to conference presentations and publications. Recently he has published papers related to color spreading illusions, social gaze, and various cognitive effects. In 2023, he won his university’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award in recognition of his scholarly mentorship. He asserts that undergraduate mentorship is the focal point of his academic career, from which all other aspects radiate. His venture into book writing is an extension of this commitment to mentorship, as quality textbooks and resources are fundamental to educational success.
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New and updated topics, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, multitasking, false memories, memory disorders, imagination and aphantasia are present.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Demonstrations features offer illustrative exercises that show students exactly how cognition works.
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