Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience - Hardcover

Goldstein, E. Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0840033559 ISBN 13: 9780840033550

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2010

Synopsis

Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY connects the study of cognition to your everyday life. This accessible book introduces you to landmark studies as well as the cutting-edge research that define this fascinating field. To help you further experiment with and understand the concepts in the text, you can use COGLAB 2.0: THE ONLINE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY. Available at www.cengagebrain.com, COGLAB contains dozens of classic experiments designed to help you learn about cognitive concepts and how the mind works.

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About the Author:

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 has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention, and the perception of pictures. He is the author of SENSATION AND PERCEPTION, 9th Edition (Cengage, 2014), and the editor of the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001) and the two-volume SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERCEPTION (Sage, 2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0840033559
• ISBN 13: 9780840033550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 480