Cognition

Préface
An undergraduate cognition textbook connecting foundational experiments and basic theories.

Auteur
Daniel T. Willingham is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He has won multiple department and university teaching awards. His research focuses on the application of cognitive principles to K-16 education, and his work on that subject has appeared in twenty-three languages. In 2017, he was appointed by President Obama to serve as a Member of the National Board for Education Sciences. Cedar Riener is Professor of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College, where he was awarded the college's highest teaching award in 2021. His primary area of research focuses on our perception of the natural world and how the state of our body influences our perception. He has also written about applying research in cognitive science to education. He teaches courses in Cognition, Perception, Introduction to Psychology, History of Psychology, and several unique seminar courses.

Texte du rabat
Written for undergraduates taking Cognitive Psychology, this book connects foundational experiments and basic theories to provide students with an essential understanding of cognition. Its structured narrative and friendly tone offer an approachable introduction to how we can discover answers to key questions about the mind.

Résumé
Fully revised and updated for the fifth edition, Cognition offers an approachable yet deep introduction to the science of the mind. Avoiding the pitfall of a grab bag of phenomena, Willingham and Riener survey key mental processes such as memory, language, and problem-solving and connect them to experimental process. This new edition has been fully revised and updated with new references, figures, and experiments, with particular attention to the intersection of cognition and culture. Written in a down-to-earth narrative prose that avoids jargon, addresses the reader directly, and cracks a few jokes, Cognition offers an accessible introduction that is ideal for students of all levels.

Contenu
Preface; 1. Cognitive psychologists' approach to research; 2. Methods of cognitive psychology; 3. Visual perception; 4. Attention; 5. Sensory and working memory; 6. Long-Term memory structure; 7. Long-Term memory processes: Memory encoding; 8. Long-Term memory processes: Memory retrieval; 9. Concepts and categories; 10. Language structure; 11. Language processing; 12. Decision making and reasoning; 13. Problem solving; Glossary; References; Index.