Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory 6th Edition by Kathleen M. Galotti, ISBN-13: 978-1506351568

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Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory 6th Edition by Kathleen M. Galotti, ISBN-13: 978-1506351568

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• Publisher: ‎ SAGE Publications, Inc; 6th edition (August 16, 2017)
• Language: ‎ English
• ISBN-10: 1506351565
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1506351568

Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory presents balanced, up-to-date coverage of cognitive psychology and shows readers that research conducted in the lab truly does impact the real world. Using her signature, accessible writing style, author Kathleen M. Galotti masterfully connects cognitive psychology to students′ everyday lives through current, relevant examples. The Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the rapidly changing field of cognitive psychology with new references, streamlined content that gives more attention to key topics like memory, and material on advances in research that enhance our understanding of how people acquire and use information.

Table of Contents:

Front Matter

Brief Contents

Detailed Contents

Media Library

Preface

About the Author

1 Cognitive Psychology: History, Methods, and Paradigms

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Influences on the Study of Cognition

Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology

Paradigms of Cognitive Psychology

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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2 The Brain: An Overview of Structure and Function

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Structure of the Brain

Localization of Function

Lateralization of Function

Brain-Imaging Techniques

Other Brain-Recording Techniques

Training the Brain

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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3 Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Gestalt Approaches to Perception

Bottom-Up Processes

Top-Down Processes

Face Perception

Direct Perception

Disruptions of Perception: Visual Agnosias

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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4 Attention: Deploying Cognitive Resources

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Selective Attention

Divided Attention

Automaticity and the Effects of Practice

Controlling Attention

Neural Underpinnings of Attention

Divided Attention Outside the Laboratory: Cell Phone Use While Driving

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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5 Working Memory: Forming and Using New Memory Traces

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory

Working Memory

Executive Functioning

Neurological Studies of Memory Processes

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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6 Retrieving Memories From Long-Term Storage

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Aspects of Long-Term Memory

Subdivisions of Long-Term Memory

The Levels-of-Processing View

Amnesia

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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7 The Reconstructive Nature of Memory

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Narrative Memory

Autobiographical Memory

The Recovered/False Memory Debate

Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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8 Knowledge Representation: Storing and Organizing Information in Long-Term Memory

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Organizing Knowledge

Forming Concepts and Categorizing New Instances

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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9 Visual Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Codes in Long-Term Memory

Empirical Investigations of Imagery

The Nature of Mental Imagery

Neuropsychological Findings

Spatial Cognition

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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10 Language

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Defining Language

The Structure of Language

Language Comprehension and Production

Language and Cognition

Bilingualism

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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11 Thinking and Problem Solving

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Defining Terms

Classic Problems and General Methods of Solution

Blocks to Problem Solving

The Problem Space Hypothesis

Expert Systems

Finding Creative Solutions

Critical Thinking

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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12 Reasoning and Decision Making

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Reasoning

Decision Making

Cognitive Illusions in Decision Making

Utility Models of Decision Making

Descriptive Models of Decision Making

Neuropsychological Evidence on Reasoning and Decision Making

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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13 Cognitive Development Through Adolescence

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Stage and Nonstage Theories of Cognitive Development

Piagetian Theory

Non-Piagetian Approaches to Cognitive Development

Some Post-Piagetian Answers to the Question “What Develops?”

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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14 Individual Differences in Cognition

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Individual Differences in Cognition

Gender Differences in Cognition

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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15 Cognition in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Media Library

Setting the Stage

Defining “Culture”

Examples of Studies of Cross-Cultural Cognition

Effects of Schooling and Literacy

Situated Cognition in Everyday Settings

Summary

Review Questions

Key Terms

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Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Kathleen M. Galotti holds a B.A. in psychology and economics from Wellesley College, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in psychology and an M.S.E. in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. At Carleton College she holds the title Professor and Director of Cognitive Science, an interdisciplinary program, which she helped establish in 1989. She also is a former department chair of Psychology. She teaches courses in cognitive and developmental psychology and cognitive science, and has also taught courses in statistics and introductory psychology. Dr. Galotti is the author or coauthor of dozens of peer-reviewed studies in cognitive and developmental psychology. Her research centers on the development of reasoning and decision-making skills from the preschool period through adulthood and on the styles with which adolescents and adults plan for the future, make important life commitments, and learn new information. Her research has been funded through the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She is the author of Making Decisions That Matter: How People Face Important Life Choices (Erlbaum, 2002), as well as a textbook, Cognitive Development: Infancy Through Adolescence (SAGE, 2011).

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