Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology, 2nd Edition

What you’ll find inside

Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology, 2nd Edition by Dawn M. McBride and J. Cooper Cutting introduces cognitive psychology through both its central topics and the methods researchers use to investigate them. The supplied PDF identifies the second edition. Its structure makes the connection between theory, experimental design and evidence part of the learning path, rather than leaving research methods separate from the subject matter.

Study the processes and the evidence

The opening material introduces cognition, current perspectives and the scientific method, then considers research designs, case studies and ways to examine brain activity. Later chapters address perception, attention, memory structures and retrieval, memory errors, imagery, language, concepts and knowledge, problem solving, reasoning and decision making. These topics give readers a framework for asking how mental processes work and how psychologists build evidence about them.

Build a connected course overview

Because research practice appears alongside cognitive topics, the book can support assignments that ask students to distinguish an explanation from the evidence used to support it. Chapter reviews, quizzes, key terms and research prompts offer a consistent structure for checking comprehension and revisiting difficult concepts. Readers can use the topic sequence to organize notes or compare concepts across perception, memory and higher-level thought.

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Check that your course requires the second edition and the full title, since similarly named cognitive psychology books cover related material with different organization. This listing is for a PDF ebook; its page layout is fixed, so detailed diagrams and research figures may be easier to read on a larger screen. The title page and four sample images help you verify the supplied file before making a selection.

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