Current Directions in Cognitive Science
Published on 20. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-13-191991-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new and exciting Association for Psychological Science Reader, edited by Barbara A. Spellman and Daniel T. Willingham, both of University of Virginia, includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessible Current Directions in Psychological Science journal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective-from a reliable source-about today's most current and pressing issues in cognitive science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-191991-4 (9780131919914)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
VISUAL PERCEPTION.
Mack, A. (2003). Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing.
Behrmann, M. (2000). The mind's eye mapped onto the brain's matter.
Martino, G., & Marks, L. E. (2001). Synesthesia: Strong and weak.
MEMORY.
Garry, M., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2000). Imagination and memory.
McNally, R. J.(2003). Recovering memories of trauma: A view from the laboratory.
Wells, G. L., Olson, E. A., & Charman, S. D. (2002). The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups.
Brown, V. R., & Paulus, P. B. (2002). Making group brainstorming more effective: Recommendations from an associative memory perspective.
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING AND CAUSAL REASONING.
OEehman, A., & Mineka, S. (2003). The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear.
Thompson, S. C. (1999). Illusions of control: How we overestimate our personal influence.
Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R. (1999). When possibility informs reality: Counterfactual thinking as a cue to causality.
Norenzayan, A., & Nisbett, R. E. (2000). Culture and causal cognition.
SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS.
Klahr, D., & Simon, H. A. (2001). What have psychologists (and others) discovered about the process of scientific discovery?
Siegler, R. S. (2000). Unconscious insights.
Mellers, B. A., & McGraw, A. P. (2001). Anticipated emotions as guides to choice.
Yaniv, I. (2004). The benefit of additional opinions.
LANGUAGE.
Saffran, J. R. (2003). Statistical language learning: Mechanisms and constraints.
Landauer, T. K. (1998). Learning and representing verbal meaning: The latent semantic analysis theory.
Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension.
Zwaan, R. A. (1999). Situation models: The mental leap into imagined worlds.
Minds and Brains.
Miller, G. A., & Keller, J. (2000). Psychology and neuroscience: Making peace.
Roser, M. & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2004). Automatic brains-Interpretative minds.
Povinelli, D. J., & Bering, J. M. (2002). The mentality of apes revisited.
Nickerson, R. S. (2001). The projective way of knowing: A useful heuristic that sometimes misleads.
Mack, A. (2003). Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing.
Behrmann, M. (2000). The mind's eye mapped onto the brain's matter.
Martino, G., & Marks, L. E. (2001). Synesthesia: Strong and weak.
MEMORY.
Garry, M., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2000). Imagination and memory.
McNally, R. J.(2003). Recovering memories of trauma: A view from the laboratory.
Wells, G. L., Olson, E. A., & Charman, S. D. (2002). The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups.
Brown, V. R., & Paulus, P. B. (2002). Making group brainstorming more effective: Recommendations from an associative memory perspective.
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING AND CAUSAL REASONING.
OEehman, A., & Mineka, S. (2003). The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear.
Thompson, S. C. (1999). Illusions of control: How we overestimate our personal influence.
Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R. (1999). When possibility informs reality: Counterfactual thinking as a cue to causality.
Norenzayan, A., & Nisbett, R. E. (2000). Culture and causal cognition.
SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS.
Klahr, D., & Simon, H. A. (2001). What have psychologists (and others) discovered about the process of scientific discovery?
Siegler, R. S. (2000). Unconscious insights.
Mellers, B. A., & McGraw, A. P. (2001). Anticipated emotions as guides to choice.
Yaniv, I. (2004). The benefit of additional opinions.
LANGUAGE.
Saffran, J. R. (2003). Statistical language learning: Mechanisms and constraints.
Landauer, T. K. (1998). Learning and representing verbal meaning: The latent semantic analysis theory.
Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension.
Zwaan, R. A. (1999). Situation models: The mental leap into imagined worlds.
Minds and Brains.
Miller, G. A., & Keller, J. (2000). Psychology and neuroscience: Making peace.
Roser, M. & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2004). Automatic brains-Interpretative minds.
Povinelli, D. J., & Bering, J. M. (2002). The mentality of apes revisited.
Nickerson, R. S. (2001). The projective way of knowing: A useful heuristic that sometimes misleads.