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Applied Cognitive Psychology: A Textbook (Challenges and Controversies in Applied Cognition Series)

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After being assigned this book for an applied psychology course, we all agreed that it included some pretty basic information but was insufficient in content. This text treats the distinction between basic and applied research in a much too black-and-white fashion, free from the various nuances that actually exist in real applications. Instead, we mostly learned from The Handbook of Applied Cognition (edited by Durso) and found it to be much more adequate and cover each of the chapters from this book and then some. However, this book came with a much greater price tag (around $200).

Bottom line: If you want a basic broad brush covering of some topics that you will find in any basic cognitive book, with some sprinklings of application to the real world, then this book is probably sufficient. However, if you are wanting an in-depth coverage of these topics with a wide variety of perspectives from people in applied fields, then you need to seek greener pastures.