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Cognitive Psychology
A Methods Companion
Edited by Nick Braisby
256 pages
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7pp colour plates; numerous halftones, tables & line drawings
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246x171mm
978-0-19-928160-2
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Paperback
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10 February 2005
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- Offers unrivalled coverage of an aspect of psychology that is usually neglected in textbooks, enabling students to develop a detailed knowledge and understanding of these important topics
- Provides a balanced discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of those methods covered, stimulating students to think in a critical way not only about psychological theory, but about the techniques used to study this theory
- A broad-ranging approach encompasses both ethical issues and quantitative methods, providing the student with a truly balanced treatment of psychological methodology, and the issues that underpin the subject
- Presents methods in an applied context, so that students see the value of these methods to practising cognitive psychologists
- The Online Resource Centre includes an extensive range of software and experimental data files to augment material presented in the text, which allow students to explore topics in a hands-on manner
Our experience of the world around us is grounded in many intricate cognitive processes, which allow us to sense and perceive, to comprehend, and to remember. But how can we study these cognitive processes? What techniques are available to help us probe new questions in cognitive psychology, and further our understanding of this intriguing field?
Cognitive Psychology: A Methods Companion focuses on the key methods of cognitive psychology, as well as on exciting new techniques that cognitive
psychologists increasingly need to understand. Its aim is to enable students to understand these methods, their advantages and disadvantages, and better appreciate the research that employs them.
Adopting a broad approach, the book draws on the contributions of the neural sciences and the computing sciences to experimental psychology, demonstrating how connectionism, symbolic computation, neuroimaging, and neuropsychology are being applied to illuminate our understanding of cognitive processes.
Students are encouraged to undertake numerous activities, including computer-based exercises using specially designed software and files, to help them engage with the methods covered, and begin to explore the power of these methods as research
tools.
With new technologies driving forward advances in cognitive psychology at an unprecedented rate, it has never been more important for students to be aware of these technologies. Cognitive Psychology: A Methods Companion is the perfect resource to help students attain this awareness, and appreciate the impact that these technologies are having on the study of cognitive psychology.
Online Resource Centre:
The Online Resource Centre contains the following resources to augment material presented in the text, and to support interactive self-directed student learning
- Neural Nets software
- Act-r software
- Excel spreadsheets and exercises
- SPSS data
filesReadership: Intermediate and advanced psychology undergraduates studying a cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience course. Also of interest to those studying more interdisciplinary courses, including cognitive science.
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Edited by Nick Braisby, The Open University, UK Contributors:
Contrributing Authors:
Nick Braisby, Open University, UK
Olaf Hauk, CBU, Cambridge, UK
Ashok Jansari, University of East London, UK
Ingrid Johnsrude, CBU, Cambridge, UK
Martin Le Voi, Open University, UK
Bundy Mackintosh, Open University, UK
Paul Mulholland, Open University, UK
Stuart Watt, Robert Gordon University, UK
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Introduction
1: Ethics
2: Connectionism
3: Symbolic Modelling
4: Neuroimaging
5: Cognitive Neuropsychology
6: Quantitative Methods
Appendix 1: Psychological Ethical Codes
Appendix 2: Sample Data Protection Act Information Sheet
Index
Acknowledgements
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