8th edition. — Psychology Press, 2020. — 976 p. — ISBN 978-1-13848-223-4.
The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual perception and attention through to memory and language. Each chapter is complete with key definitions, practical real-life applications, chapter summaries and suggested further reading to help students develop an understanding of this fascinating but complex field. Widely regarded as the leading undergraduate textbook in the field of cognitive psychology, this new edition comes complete with an enhanced accompanying companion website. The website includes a suite of learning resources including simulation experiments, multiple-choice questions, and access to Primal Pictures’ interactive 3D atlas of the brain.
Approaches to human cognition
Visual perception and attentionBasic processes in visual perception
Object and face recognition
Motion perception and action
Attention and performance
MemoryLearning, memory and forgetting
Long-term memory systems
Everyday memory
LanguageSpeech perception and reading
Language comprehension
Language production
Thinking and reasoningProblem solving and expertise
Judgement and decision-making
Reasoning and hypothesis testing
Broadening horizonsCognition and emotion
Consciousness