Cognitive Psychology

Elan Barenholtz, Christine Burton, Lauren Mavica, Hillary Wehe

Developed with a digital-first approach and written in a digestible, easy-to-read style, Cognitive Psychology engages students in a wide array of topics in cognition with relatable examples and applications to their everyday lives. Each topic includes a dedicated set of critical thinking questions and engaging coverage on cognitive psychology applications in the development of AI, teaching the functions of the human brain from a unique perspective. The text is further enriched with response system-enabled class activities and interactive components that allow students to experience and better understand a phenomenon first-hand.

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Table of Contents for Cognitive Psychology

About this Course
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How to Study Cognition
Chapter 3: The Brain
Chapter 4: Perception
Chapter 5: Attention
Chapter 6: Short-Term and Working Memory
Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory
Chapter 8: Autobiographical Memory
Chapter 9: Knowledge
Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
Chapter 11: Language
Chapter 12: Problem Solving
Chapter 13: Reasoning and Decision Making

Key features

Call-out sections connect chapter content to the exciting and rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), connecting the developments to cognitive psychology
Students experience phenomena for themselves through integrated multimedia elements, in-class activities and demonstrations—optional add-on interactive lab simulations also available
New in-class activities with live response questions and pre-built, customizable stimuli that can be launched with the click of a button for students to experience a phenomena together as a class