Psychology Express: Cognitive Psychology

✍ Scribed by Dr Jonathan Ling, Dr Jonathan Catling, Dr Dominic Upton (editor)

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within cognitive psychology, designed to help you focus on assessment and exams. The guide is organised to cater for QAA and BPS recommendations for course content. Sample questions, assessment advice and exam tips drive the organisation within chapters so you are able to grasp and marshal your thoughts towards revision of the main topics. Features focused on critical thinking, practical applications and key research offer additional pointers for you in your revision process and exam preparation.

A companion website provides supporting resources for self testing, exam practice, answers to questions in the book, and links to further resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Contents
Guided tour
Introduction
Guided tour of the companion website
Acknowledgements
A brief history of cognitive psychology
Perception
Attention
Theories of memory
Applied aspects of memory
Cognition and emotion
Cognitive neuropsychology
Language 1: Language production and comprehension
Language 2: Issues in language
Problem solving, thinking and reasoning
Learning
Human and computer intelligence
And finally, before the exam . . .
Glossary
References
Index

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