Cognitive Psychology - Hardcover

Medin, Douglas L.; Ross, Brian H.; Markman, Arthur B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155080571 ISBN 13: 9780155080577

Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Medin and Ross present the principles of cognitive psychology within a framework of ambiguity, that is, the mind's ability to adapt to the challenges posed by the ambiguity of the world around us. This introduction to cognition covers principles, applications, and research in cognition.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Medin (Ph.D., University of South Dakota) taught at Rockefeller University, University of Illinois, and University of Michigan before assuming his position as CAS Visiting Committee Research and Teaching Professor at Northwestern University. Best known for his research on concepts and categorization, his recent research interests have extended to decision making and cross-cultural and development studies of categorization and reasoning. He teaches courses in cognitive psychology, psychology of thinking, decision making, and culture cognition. He has been editor of the journal Cognitive Psychology and currently edits the Academic Press Psychology of Learning and Motivation series.

Brian Ross received an S.B. in psychology from Brown University and an M.A. from Yale University before receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His teaching career has been at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor of Psychology at the Beckman Institute. His research has examined issues in categorization, problem solving, learning, and memory, and he was associate editor of the journal Memory and Cognition. He teaches courses in cog nitive psychology, the psychology of thinking, problem solving, mathematical models of memory, and introductory statistics.

Arthur Markman received his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois after completing his S.B. in cognitive science at Brown University. He worked at Northwestern University and Columbia University before moving to the University of Texas at Austin, where he is an associate professor in the psychology department. He teaches courses in cognitive psychology, research methods and statistics, cognitive science, and knowledge representation, and he supervises the honors program. His research has explored similarity, categorization, and decision making. His book, Knowledge Representation, was published in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0155080571
• ISBN 13: 9780155080577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 633