Cognition by Margaret W. Matlin
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- Sales Rank: 29,076
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- ISBN-13: 9780470087640
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 7
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
- Format: Textbook Hardcover, 624pp
- Sales Rank: 29,076
- ISBN-13: 9780470087640
- ISBN: 0470087641
- Edition Number: 7
- Edition Description: New Edition
Synopsis
Cognition provides readers with a clear, balanced, and highly engaging coverage of the field, along with extensive pedagogical support and numerous applications to everyday life. The seventh edition includes a new Individual Difference in Cognition feature that shows the relevance of cognitive psychology in their careers. Readers will find up-to-date discussions of important research and theories. It arms psychologists with the latest and most comprehensive overview of cognition on the market today.
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Provides an overview of the field, with chapters detailing perception, memory, imagery, general knowledge, language, problem solving and creativity, reasoning and decision making, and cognitive development. Chapters 2-12 each include a section which focuses on recent research about selected topics in cognitive psychology and provides details on research methods. Review questions, summaries, lists of key terms, and easy-to-perform demonstrations are also included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Margaret W. Matlin received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She currently holds the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology at SUNY Geneseo, where she has taught the course in cognitive psychology for 20 years.
Dr. Matlin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Canadian Psychological Association. She received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1977, the American Psychological Association’s Teaching of Psychology Award for four-year institutions in 1985, the American Psychological Foundation’s Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award in 1995, and the Society for the Psychology of Women’s Heritage Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the teaching of the psychology of women in 2001.
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Very reminiscent of my high-school textbooks; a most unfortunate waste of paper!by Anonymous
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April 07, 2003: First of all, I am using this (required) book in a congition course in college. This book is far too reminiscent of high school textbooks, which (at least for me) meant memorizing lots of terms and defintions, and re-gurgitating them for an exam. Even if this wasn't the authors intentions, that is (essentially) the end-result of this book. The 1st chapter lists 5 'themes' of the book, one which is something like 'positive information is processed better than negative information'. The books is filled with a diverse pleathora of meaningless statements such as this one. In general, the book oversimplifies concepts so greatly as too have little, if any, content left over. The author loves to make extremely general statements about 'all of cognitive psychology', and back them up with nuggets of personal opionion, antedotal evidence etc... The book's treatment of AI (artificial intellegence) involves a pleathora of big 'acamemic' terms, which are defined quite terribly (eg circular definitions, defining concepts by other concepts etc...) The book seems to focus on minute details of seemingly irrelevant or un-important questions and issues. Little, if any disccusion is included of methodological issues or unstated assumptions the author is making (and she makes a LOT of them). The only biographical information given lists award, certificates, degrees etc... conferred upon the author. From the biography, it appears she is essentially a proffesional textbook writer, which almost guarantees the textbook will have little relation to the 'real world', as it were. -Nate
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