ABSTRACT

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual perception and attention through to memory and language. Each chapter is complete with key definitions, practical real-life applications, chapter summaries and suggested further reading to help students develop an understanding of this fascinating but complex field.

The new edition includes:

  • an increased emphasis on neuroscience
  • updated references to reflect the latest research
  • applied ‘in the real world’ case studies and examples.

Widely regarded as the leading undergraduate textbook in the field of cognitive psychology, this new edition comes complete with an enhanced accompanying companion website. The website includes a suite of learning resources including simulation experiments, multiple-choice questions, and access to Primal Pictures’ interactive 3D atlas of the brain. The companion website can be accessed at: www.routledge.com/cw/eysenck.

chapter Chapter 1|39 pages

Approaches to human cognition

part I|194 pages

Visual perception and attention

chapter Chapter 2|51 pages

Basic processes in visual perception

chapter Chapter 3|46 pages

Object and face recognition

chapter Chapter 4|38 pages

Motion perception and action

chapter Chapter 5|57 pages

Attention and performance

part II|155 pages

Memory

chapter Chapter 6|57 pages

Learning, memory and forgetting

chapter Chapter 7|48 pages

Long-term memory systems

chapter Chapter 8|48 pages

Everyday memory

part III|175 pages

Language

chapter Chapter 9|58 pages

Speech perception and reading

chapter Chapter 10|53 pages

Language comprehension

chapter Chapter 11|54 pages

Language production

part IV|143 pages

Thinking and reasoning

chapter Chapter 12|49 pages

Problem solving and expertise

chapter Chapter 13|44 pages

Judgement and decision-making

chapter Chapter 14|46 pages

Reasoning and hypothesis testing

part V|88 pages

Broadening horizons

chapter Chapter 15|52 pages

Cognition and emotion

chapter Chapter 16|34 pages

Consciousness