Readings in Cognitive Psychology Applications, Connections, and Individual Differences

This research reader helps provide an understanding of the fundamental concepts that have helped define the field of cognitive psychology. It is interesting, applicable, and extremely relevant to the cognitive psychology course and our lives. Article topics include the distinction between top-down and bottom-up processing, divided attention, proactive interference, and language learnability. Highlights:--Critical thinking questions accompany each article to aid in the analysis and understanding of the research.--"Introduction" critical thinking questions focus on the background and motivation for the study in question and can be answered with a close and critical read of the report's introduction.-"Method" critical thinking questions focus on what happened in the experiment and on identifying important elements of the research design.-"Results/discussion" critical thinking questions focus on the major features of the results and how they fit with (or fail to fit with) the authors' background story and hypotheses.--"De-jargonizing" sections define unfamiliar terms and concepts.-Robinson-Riegler, Greg L. is the author of 'Readings in Cognitive Psychology Applications, Connections, and Individual Differences', published 2003 under ISBN 9780205358670 and ISBN 0205358675.