Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications 9th Edition by John Anderson, ISBN-13: 978-1319067113
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- Publisher: Worth Publishers; Ninth edition (January 21, 2020)
- Language: English
- 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 1319067115
- ISBN-13: 978-1319067113
Cognitive Psychology 9th edition takes students to the forefront of the field and introduces them to key discoveries of cognitive psychology. With accessible and clear explanations, Anderson shows students how mental processes are investigated and how we know what we know about the mind. Cognitive Psychology 9e introduces students to both the cutting edge findings of cognitive neuroscience and classic behavioral studies. Experimental data, sample stimuli, brain images, and research tasks woven throughout the text give students a real understanding of how research is conducted and the excitement of discovery. Fascinating examples and applications of cognitive theory further keep students engaged.
Table of Contents:
1 The Science of Cognition
2 Perception
3 Attention and Performance
4 Mental Imagery
5 Representation of Knowledge
6 Human Memory: Encoding and Storage
7 Human Memory: Retention and Retrieval
8 Problem Solving
9 Expertise
10 Reasoning
11 Problem Solving
12 Language Structure
13 Language Comprehension
14 Individual Differences in Cognition
JOHN ROBERT ANDERSON is Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for developing ACT-R, the most widely used cognitive architecture in cognitive science. Anderson was also an early leader in research on intelligent tutoring systems: Computer systems based on his cognitive tutors currently teach mathematics to about 500,000 children in U.S. schools. He has served as president of the Cognitive Science Society and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous scientific awards, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Career Award, the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition, the inaugural Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science, and the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Science from the National Academy of Sciences.
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