Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Kellogg, Ronald T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412977851 ISBN 13: 9781412977852

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This clear and concise text offers undergraduate students a brief but solid introduction to the fundamental concepts of cognitive psychology. Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition adds and integrates the latest developments in the field including the transformational findings of cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, emotion, and cognitive development. Offering a coherent perspective on what is happening at the leading edge of the field today, this text will engage students interest with its relevant and insightful examples of important concepts in cognitive psychology.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald T. Kellogg is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University. His education includes degrees from the University of Iowa (BS, psychology) and the University of Colorado (MA and PhD, experimental psychology) and postdoctoral study at Stanford University. His past research has examined attention, long-term memory, concept learning, and cognitive processes in writing. His current work focuses on working memory in written composition and hemispheric differences in the semantic processing of language production. He has authored numerous technical journal articles and book chapters plus several books, including The Psychology of Writing (1994), Cognitive Psychology, 2nd Ed. (2003), and The Making of the Mind: The Neuroscience of Human Nature (2013).

Review:

“Very likely to adopt. The book is very well written, well organized from a student perspective, and conducive to the type of classroom I teach.” Author: Eric C. Odgaard

“Very likely. I see the strengths as the length, price, and writing level of the book. As a concise text, it can be covered in a semester. It covers the main material you would want in a course on cognition. It presents the material in an easy to read fashion. The main concepts are discussed and highlighted in boxes in the margins.” Author: Sandra Sego

“Very likely - I chose the Kellogg text primarily because it seemed to be written at a level that would be suitable to my students. Each chapter is 30 pages and covers the basics of the area. That quantity of reading at that level is manageable for students to read approximately a chapter a week. If students mastered the material in the text, I could feel relatively secure knowing that they knew “what they had to know.” This was the text’s strength: providing the basics in a straightforward way. The graphs, tables and figures were simple and presented clearly. There were not extraneous graphics, dialog boxes, etc., that I sometimes find distracting.” Author: Eric C. Satlow

"Ronald T. Kellogg′s Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology is a very informative and user-friendly introductory textbook for students and general readers alike. This is a book that I would recommend to general readers and undergraduate students alike." Author: Robert J. Belton

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1412977851
• ISBN 13: 9781412977852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 376