Cognition provides readers with a clear, balanced, and highly engaging coverage of the field, along with extensive pedagogical support and numerous applications to everyday life. The seventh edition includes a new Individual Difference in Cognition feature that shows the relevance of cognitive psychology in their careers. Readers will find up-to-date discussions of important research and theories. It arms psychologists with the latest and most comprehensive overview of cognition on the market today.
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With Margaret Matlin’s Cognition, Sixth Edition, you have the opportunity to explore the latest thinking on cognitive processes, current theoretical approaches, and innovative research techniques.
Extensively updated with more than 700 new references, this Sixth Edition provides clear, balanced, and highly engaging coverage of the field, along with extensive pedagogical support and numerous applications to everyday life. You’ll investigate interesting topics such as perceptual processes, working memory, long-term memory, mental imagery, general knowledge, language, problem solving, decision making, and cognitive development. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Margaret W. Matlin received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She currently holds the title Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology at SUNY Geneseo, where she has taught the course in cognitive psychology for 20 years. In addition to Cognition, Harcourt also publishes her textbooks, Psychology and Psychology of Women.
Dr. Matlin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Canadian Psychological Association. She received the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1977, the American Psychological Association's Teaching of Psychology Award for four-year institutions in 1985, and the American Psychological Foundation's Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award in 1995. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have used Margaret Matlin's cognitive psychology textbook several times to teach an undergraduate cognition course. The book is reasonably organized and up-to-date. I am satisfied with it as an instructor because it covers the field well, incorporates instructional design features that promote learning, is instructor-friendly, and is readable for undergraduate students.
The text is organized into thirteen chapters that cover the familiar landscape of cognition. I suggest using Amazon's "Search inside this book" link to verify coverage of key topics in the detailed Table of Contents. By the author's report, the 7th edition includes "2,064 references; 806 are new to the seventh edition." I didn't look them all up, of course, but my experience with the text attests to her good judgment in the mix of current and classic studies, both referenced and discussed in the text.
The book's instructional design features are better than average. A large glossary aids study and reinforces consistency in terminology across chapters. The demonstrations throughout the book are well-crafted, allowing students to experiment with new concepts quickly as they read. Placing summaries at the end of each chapter section (rather than only at chapter end) is an excellent idea, encouraging more frequent review of smaller amounts of related material. The remaining end-of-chapter material--review questions, keywords and recommended readings--is standard, but well executed.
Instructor friendly features count with me too, since they make my life easier. Matlin has been largely successful in making each chapter self-contained, allowing the instructor to shuffle the order with minimal pain for students. Her use of primary research sources enables motivated students to dive into the field's research literature for term papers or extra reading, even if their searching skills are not yet well developed. The test bank is helpful addition and is well integrated with the text itself.
Maitlin is both praised and criticized for her writing style, seen as either accessible or excessively chatty. I personally don't enjoy such a chatty style in a professional book. But I still think she gets it right--because I am not her target audience. My students find her style engaging and her personal examples helpful and interesting. They are the audience that matters and I am glad this book connects well with most of them. This, too, makes my job easier.
This text is recommended for use in an undergraduate cognition class.
The text is organized into thirteen chapters that cover the familiar landscape of cognition. I suggest using Amazon's "Search inside this book" link to verify coverage of key topics in the detailed Table of Contents. By the author's report, the 7th edition includes "2,064 references; 806 are new to the seventh edition." I didn't look them all up, of course, but my experience with the text attests to her good judgment in the mix of current and classic studies, both referenced and discussed in the text.
The book's instructional design features are better than average. A large glossary aids study and reinforces consistency in terminology across chapters. The demonstrations throughout the book are well-crafted, allowing students to experiment with new concepts quickly as they read. Placing summaries at the end of each chapter section (rather than only at chapter end) is an excellent idea, encouraging more frequent review of smaller amounts of related material. The remaining end-of-chapter material--review questions, keywords and recommended readings--is standard, but well executed.
Instructor friendly features count with me too, since they make my life easier. Matlin has been largely successful in making each chapter self-contained, allowing the instructor to shuffle the order with minimal pain for students. Her use of primary research sources enables motivated students to dive into the field's research literature for term papers or extra reading, even if their searching skills are not yet well developed. The test bank is helpful addition and is well integrated with the text itself.
Maitlin is both praised and criticized for her writing style, seen as either accessible or excessively chatty. I personally don't enjoy such a chatty style in a professional book. But I still think she gets it right--because I am not her target audience. My students find her style engaging and her personal examples helpful and interesting. They are the audience that matters and I am glad this book connects well with most of them. This, too, makes my job easier.
This text is recommended for use in an undergraduate cognition class.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book covers most aspects of the subject and is easy to read. I liked the way important phrases, titles etc were emphasized and highlighted in the text, almost like notes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have rented this book on the Kindle App for my IPad. The content is excellent, highly informative, interesting, well-written, and understandable. However, I do agree with another reviewer in that the chapter review questions are extremely awkward, time-consuming, and not as succinct as one would expect from an otherwise excellent textbook.
That said, I would not recommend renting this book in its digital edition, especially for an IPad. It is difficult to flip from one place to another in the text; there are no search tools available on the IPad, though on my computer, searches are available, and there is an extremely restricted copy function. For instance I wanted to copy the review questions on to my homework sheet for the convenience of not having to retype them, and after only three chapters, I was restricted from copying anything else.
That said, I would not recommend renting this book in its digital edition, especially for an IPad. It is difficult to flip from one place to another in the text; there are no search tools available on the IPad, though on my computer, searches are available, and there is an extremely restricted copy function. For instance I wanted to copy the review questions on to my homework sheet for the convenience of not having to retype them, and after only three chapters, I was restricted from copying anything else.
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visual object recognition, face identification, orienting attention network, immediate memory for material, metacomprehension skills, conjugate reinforcement technique, feature comparison model, rotation heuristic, spatial framework model, lexical entrainment, noninsight problems, alignment heuristic, sentence verification technique, executive attention network, conditional reasoning tasks, prototypical vehicle, distributed attention, exemplar approach, visuospatial sketchpad, phonetic module, front yard shaded, implicit memory tasks, propositional code, intervening cities, analog code Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Section Summary, United States, New York, Individual Differences, Sam Stone, Alan Baddeley, North American, Perceptual Processes, Van Der Wege, South Asian, San Diego, Psychology Press, George Miller, Cambridge University Press, Asian American, Oxford University Press, European American, Saddam Hussein, Color Figure, Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Noam Chomsky, Hyperactivity Disorder, President George, Cognitive Test Anxiety, Peterson Technique Browse Sample Pages:
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visual object recognition, face identification, orienting attention network, immediate memory for material, metacomprehension skills, conjugate reinforcement technique, feature comparison model, rotation heuristic, spatial framework model, lexical entrainment, noninsight problems, alignment heuristic, sentence verification technique, executive attention network, conditional reasoning tasks, prototypical vehicle, distributed attention, exemplar approach, visuospatial sketchpad, phonetic module, front yard shaded, implicit memory tasks, propositional code, intervening cities, analog code Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Section Summary, United States, New York, Individual Differences, Sam Stone, Alan Baddeley, North American, Perceptual Processes, Van Der Wege, South Asian, San Diego, Psychology Press, George Miller, Cambridge University Press, Asian American, Oxford University Press, European American, Saddam Hussein, Color Figure, Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Noam Chomsky, Hyperactivity Disorder, President George, Cognitive Test Anxiety, Peterson Technique Browse Sample Pages:
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