Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience 6e by E. Bruce Goldstein, Ralph G. Hale ISBN 9788214143386, 8214143381 instant download

Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience 6e by E. Bruce Goldstein, Ralph G. Hale ISBN 9788214143386, 8214143381 instant download

This text is the culmination of a process that began with the first edition in 2002 with the simple goal of being a text that not only covers the field of cognitive psychology but also is accessible to students. Many students perceive cognitive psychology as being too abstract, theoretical, and disconnected from everyday experience. This text aims to tell the story of cognitive psychology in a concrete way that would help students appreciate the connections between empirical research, the principles of cognitive psychology, and everyday experience.
Many features of this text help accomplish this. Chapters include real-world examples and neuropsychological case studies, where appropriate. To provide students with firsthand experience with the phenomena of cognitive psychology, more than 40 Demonstrations—easy-to-do mini-experiments—appear in the text narrative. The Demonstrations in this edition are listed on page xxi.
This text also avoids simply presenting the results of experiments. Instead, whenever possible, detailed descriptions explain how experiments were designed and what participants were doing, so students would understand how results were obtained. In addition, most of these descriptions were supported by illustrations, such as pictures of stimuli, diagrams of the experimental design, or graphs of the results.
Students also received access to more than 45 online CogLab experiments that they could run themselves and then compare their data to the class average and the results of the original experiments from the literature. This text combines many elements designed to achieve the goal of covering the basic principles of cognitive psychology in a way that students would find interesting and easy to understand. The ultimate goal is for students to come away feeling excited about the field of cognitive psychology.