Cognitive Psychology

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-923699-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 768 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 266 mm, Gewicht: 1767 g

Cognitive processes enable us to experience the world around us: to recognise a friendly face in a crowd, to communicate our passions, to recall memories from the past. When these processes stop working, it can turn friends into strangers, render speech impossible, and make history a confusion of truth and lies. Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition unravels these complex ideas, introducing the concepts behind them and looking at how techniques, such as neuroimaging, can provide answers to questions that may at first seem unanswerable.

The chapters - covering a broad range of topics, including attention, perception, and neuropsychiatry - are written to inspire students, and come complete with helpful resources, including in-chapter summaries to consolidate learning, 'Activity' boxes to help students engage in the content, and 'Research study' boxes to encourage an awareness of scientific method.

With chapters written by experts in their fields and edited by professors with a wealth of experience in teaching and learning, Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition is the ideal course companion for all psychology students.

The Online Resource Centre to accompany Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition includes:

For lecturers:

· Figures from the book available to download.
· A text bank of multiple choice questions.
· Chapters from the Methods Companion to the first edition.

For students:

· Software simulations.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate psychology students taking a first course in cognitive psychology. Also of value as a refresher for those studying courses covering more specialised aspects of cognitive psychology at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braisby, Nick

Gellatly, Angus

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Prof Nick Braisby and Prof Angus Gellatly: Foundations of cognitive psychology
2: Dr Peter Naish: Attention
3: Dr Graham Pike, Dr Graham Edgar, and Dr Helen Edgar: Perception
4: Dr Graham Pike and Dr Nicola Brace: Recognition
5: Prof Nick Braisby: Concepts
6: Prof Gareth Gaskell: Language Processing
7: Prof Simon Garrod and Prof Anthony J. Sanford: Language In Action
8: Dr Andrew Rutherford, Dr Gerasimos Markopoulos, Dr Davide Bruno and Dr Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos: Long Term Memory
9: Prof Graham Hitch: Working Memory
10: Dr Alison Greene and Prof Ken Gilhooly: Problem Solving
11: Prof Peter Ayton: Judgement and Decision Making
12: Prof Mike Oaksford: Reasoning
13: Dr Gianna Cocchini: Cognitive Neuropsychology
14: Dr Ingrid Johnsrude and Dr Olaf Hauk: Neuroimaging
15: Dr David Okai and Prof Anthony David: Neuropsychiatry
16: Dr Jenny Yiend, Dr Bundy Mackintosh, and Mr George Savulich: Cognition and Emotion
17: Dr Chris Moulin and Dr Clare Rathbone: Autobiographical memory and the working self
18: Prof Jackie Andrade: Consciousness
19: Dr Stuart Watt: Cognitive modelling and cognitive architectures
20: Prof Martin Davies: Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Psychology

Über Autor(innen)

Braisby, Nick
Nick Braisby first developed an interest in experimental and cognitive psychology during his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He then went on to study for a PhD in Cognitive Science at the Centre for Cognitive Science in Edinburgh. Following that, he took up a three year British Academy postdoctoral research fellowship, in the Department of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. His first lecturing position was in the Department of Psychology at London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan University), where he stayed for six years before moving to the Psychology Department at the Open University. In April 2007, he moved to take up a Chair and Head of Department position in the Psychology Department at the University of Winchester.

Gellatly, Angus
Angus Gellatly joined Oxford Brookes in October 2007 from the Open University where he had been since 2002, including three years as Head of Department. He had previously taught at Sussex University and Keele University, where he was Head of Department from 1992 to 2000. Along the way, he has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at MacQuarie University, Sydney; and he also had a spell working as a management consultant. At various times, he has been on the committees of the Experimental Psychology Society, the Cognitive Section of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and also the BPS's Division for Teachers and Researchers in Psychology. From 2000 to 2006, he was Deputy Chair and then Chair of the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments.