Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (wi by E. Bruce Goldstein, E. Bruce Goldstein

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This textbook covers the basic topics of cognitive psychology, including perception, attention, memory, memory errors, knowledge, visual imagery, language, problem solving, and reasoning and decision- making. A companion workbook contains review summaries, practice tests, concept maps, and other exercises. Goldstein teaches psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

After receiving his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his Ph. D. in experimental psychology from Brown University, E. Bruce Goldstein attended Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department. Currently in the department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is the director of undergraduate programs in psychology, Dr. Goldstein has received many prestigious awards, including the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, for his classroom teaching and his publications. These publications cover a wide variety of topics, such as retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention, and the perception of pictures. Dr. Goldstein is also the author of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 2nd Edition (Wadsworth, 2008) and has edited the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001). Goldstein currently teaches cognitive psychology, sensation and perception, the psychology of visual art (undergraduate), and teaching of psychology (graduate).