Cognitive Psychology

Second Edition

Edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly

A broad, engaging introduction to cognitive psychology, which encourages students to become actively involved in their learning.
Chapters from internationally recognised experts, carefully edited by experienced instructors to lead students through the subject in a coherent way.
Boxes throughout link the theory of cognitive psychology with aspects of everyday life, presenting material in contexts to which students can relate and understand, and link research findings with the techniques used to elucidate them, to develop the students' awareness and appreciation of scientific method.
Regular summaries within the chapters help students to consolidate their learning and ensure that they understand the key information.
The study of cognition is presented in the broader context of themes, challenges, and issues - not just theory - to enthuse the student more readily and encourage them to take a more critical approach to their subject.
The accompanying Online Resource Centre includes figures from the book available to download to facilitate lecture preparation, and interactive experiments to enable students to explore material covered in the book using problem-based learning.

New to this Edition:

New chapters on Neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Neuropsychiatry introduce students to contemporary topics that have expanded enormously in the last five years
The content of many of the chapters has been expanded to give more depth, answering questions like 'what technique can help patients with brain damage recognise everyday objects?' and 'if we are hypnotised, what happens in our brain?'
The order of chapters has been changed to give the material a better narrative flow.
New eye-catching, full colour design.
Expanded Online Resource Centre includes new 'Journal Clubs' to encourage students to engage with the primary literature, and better understand how investigators explore the subject.

Cognitive Psychology

Second Edition

Edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly

Description

Cognitive processes enable us to experience the world around us: to recognise a friendly face in a crowd, to communicate our passions, to recall memories from the past. When these processes stop working, it can turn friends into strangers, render speech impossible, and make history a confusion of truth and lies. Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition unravels these complex ideas, introducing the concepts behind them and looking at how techniques, such as neuroimaging, can provide answers to questions that may at first seem unanswerable.

The chapters - covering a broad range of topics, including attention, perception, and neuropsychiatry - are written to inspire students, and come complete with helpful resources, including in-chapter summaries to consolidate learning, 'Activity' boxes to help students engage in the content, and 'Research study' boxes to encourage an awareness of scientific method.

With chapters written by experts in their fields and edited by professors with a wealth of experience in teaching and learning, Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition is the ideal course companion for all psychology students.

The Online Resource Centre to accompany Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition includes:

For lecturers:
· Figures from the book available to download.
· A text bank of multiple choice questions.
· Chapters from the Methods Companion to the first edition.

For students:
· Software simulations.

Cognitive Psychology

Second Edition

Edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly

1:Foundations of cognitive psychology, Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly
Part 1:Perceptual Processes
2:Attention, Peter Naish
3:Perception, Graham Pike, Graham Edgar, and Helen Edgar
4:Recognition, Graham Pike and Nicola Brace
Part 2:Concepts and Language
5:Concepts, Nick Braisby
6:Language Processing, Gareth Gaskell and Helen Brown
7:Language In Action, Simon Garrod and Anthony J. Sanford
Part 3:Memory
8:Long Term Memory, Andrew Rutherford, Gerasimos Markopoulos, Davide Bruno and Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos
9:Working Memory, Graham Hitch
Part 4:Thinking
10:Problem Solving, Alison Greene and Ken Gilhooly
11:Judgement and Decision Making, Peter Ayton
12:Reasoning, Mike Oaksford
Part 5:Contributions from the Cognitive Neurosciences
13:Cognitive Neuropsychology, Gianna Cocchini
14:Neuroimaging, Ingrid Johnsrude and Olaf Hauk
15:Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, David Okai, Anthony David and Angus Gellaty
Part 6:Challenges, Themes, and Issues
16:Cognition and Emotion, Jenny Yiend, Bundy Mackintosh, and George Savulich
17:Autobiographical memory and the self, Chris Moulin, Clare Rathbone, Martin A. Conway, and Emily A. Holmes
18:Consciousness, Jackie Andrade
19:Cognitive modelling and cognitive architectures, Paul Mulholland and Stuart Watt
20:Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Psychology, Martin Davies and Tony Stone

Cognitive Psychology

Second Edition

Edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly

Author Information

Edited by Nick Braisby, Head of Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, and Angus Gellatly, Professor of Psychology and Acting Head of Department, Oxford Brookes University

Nick Braisby first developed an interest in experimental and cognitive psychology during his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He then went on to study for a PhD in Cognitive Science at the Centre for Cognitive Science in Edinburgh. Following that, he took up a three year British Academy postdoctoral research fellowship, in the Department of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. His first lecturing position was in the Department of Psychology at London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan University), where he stayed for six years before moving to the Psychology Department at the Open University. In April 2007, he moved to take up a Chair and Head of Department position in the Psychology Department at the University of Winchester.

Angus Gellatly joined Oxford Brookes in October 2007 from the Open University where he had been since 2002, including three years as Head of Department. He had previously taught at Sussex University and Keele University, where he was Head of Department from 1992 to 2000. Along the way, he has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at MacQuarie University, Sydney; and he also had a spell working as a management consultant. At various times, he has been on the committees of the Experimental Psychology Society, the Cognitive Section of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and also the BPS's Division for Teachers and Researchers in Psychology. From 2000 to 2006, he was Deputy Chair and then Chair of the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments.

Contributors:

Prof Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University
Dr Nicola Brace, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
Dr Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen
Prof Nick Braisby, Department of Psychology, University of Winchester
Dr Davide Bruno, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and Department of Psychiatry, New York University
Dr Graham Edgar, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire
Dr Helen Edgar, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire
Prof Simon Garrod, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow
Prof Gareth Gaskell, Department of Psychology, University of York
Prof Angus Gellatly, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
Prof Ken Gilhooly, Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire
Dr Alison Greene, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
Prof Graham Hitch, Department of Psychology, University of York
Dr Gerasimos Markopoulos, Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University
Dr Peter Naish, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
Prof Mike Oaksford, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Graham Pike, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
Dr Andrew Rutherford, School of Psychology, Keele University
Prof Anthony J. Sanford, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow

Cognitive Psychology

Second Edition

Edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly

Reviews and Awards

Review from previous edition 'Cognitive Psychology' provides an in depth introduction to all of the major subdisciplines within the field. The book takes a unique approach compared to other textbooks by explicitly incorporating discussions about overall themes within cognitive psychology and presenting the challenges and issues that remain in the field. This approach, along with chapters written by experts within each relevant subdiscipline, make Cognitive Psychology an ideal textbook for both new students of psychology and more advanced students. - Dr, Corey T. McMillan, University of Edinburgh

Comprehensive, well written and highly informative introductory text. An essential reader for undergraduate students. - Dr. Neil Dagnall, Manchester Metropolitan University

The explanations are amongst the best I have seen in an introductory textbook in Cognitive Psychology. - Mr Stephen Kilpatrick, University of Northampton