Cognition: For University of Mumbai
This edition of Mark H. Ashcraft and Gabriel A. Radvansky’s Cognition is customized for the University of Mumbai’s paper in Cognitive Psychology, offered for Psychology majors in the third year of the Bachelor of Arts course. The content has been written and structured keeping in mind the specific requirements of the course while preserving the quality that made the book a bestseller. The text will also be useful for the general reader who wants to develop their understanding of psychology.
Table of Content
- Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
- The Cognitive Science Approach
- Perception and Pattern Recognition
- Attention
- Short-Term Working Memory
- Learning and Remembering
- Knowing
- Using Knowledge in the Real World
- Decisions, Judgments, and Reasoning
- Problem Solving
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Salient Features
- Specific coverage: The topic flow matches that of the syllabus.
- Many ‘Prove It!’ sections make concepts easier to understand by way of quick demonstrations of the relevant processes.
- Issues relating to the neuroscience of memory and cognition will be helpful for those anticipating careers in social cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, clinical and forensic psychology, basic or applied cognitive psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology.
- Themes of embodied cognition and emotion are interwoven in the text to help you understand how they relate to your everyday experience as well as to the other psychology courses you may be taking.
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