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Cognition: Theory and Practice

First  Edition©2013 Russell Revlin

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Discover how the field of cognitive psychology relates to everyday life as Cognition: Theory and Practice links theory, experimental findings, and ordinary, human activity. Common experiences such as why answering a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as closing your eyes for less than a second, but talking to a passenger for a minute is perfectly safe are explained alongside examples of research related to human neuroscience and brain imaging.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Chapter 2. The Brain and Cognition
 
Part One: Sensory Systems
Chapter 3. Attention
Chapter 4. Pattern Recognition
 
Part Two: Memory
Chapter 5. Short-Term Memory and Working Memory
Chapter 6. Long-Term Memory
Chapter 7. Knowledge
Chapter 8. Imagery: Special Representation in Memory
 
Part Three: Language
Chapter 9. Language: A Cognitive Universal
Chapter 10. Language and Cognitive Processing
 
Part Four: Problem Solving and Reasoning
Chapter 11. Solving Problems
Chapter 12. Reasoning
Chapter 13. Decision Making

Russell Revlin

Russell Revlin is associate professor of psychology at the University of California–Santa Barbara. His academic journey began when, as a biopsychology student, he came across a tattered book on reasoning and problem solving at UCLA that expanded his view of psychology. The following year he was graduate student in cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a PhD. After a postdoctoral fellowship in psycholinguistics from Stanford University, Dr. Revlin established his laboratory in human inference, focusing on how memory, language, and imaginal processes contribute to our ability to reason about novel situations and domains.