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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
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
SAGE edge
14 Individual Differences in Cognition
Media Library
Setting the Stage
Individual Differences in Cognition
Gender Differences in Cognition
Summary
Review Questions
Key Terms
SAGE edge
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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