Cognitive Psychology

Theory, Process, and Methodology

This new text for cognitive psychology courses covers core content such as perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning & problem solving, and cognitive neuroscience with an emphasis on current methods of study. The text features a student-friendly writing style that introduces students of cognitive psychology to the main topics of study in this field through a description of how cognitive processes have been and continue to be studied by researchers in this key area of psychology. McBride and Cutting's Cognitive Psychology has three primary goals: to introduce cognitive psychology topics in a student-friendly manner; to help students understand the methods that cognitive researchers use to better understand cognitive processes; and to encourage students to think critically about current theories and research in cognitive psychology. These goals are met through an engaging presentation of topics rich with real-life examples and student-friendly writing, an approach that encourages students to see the core topics of the course through the eyes of the researcher, and carefully developed pedagogical features throughout each chapter to encourage critical thinking. As in McBride's best-selling The Process of Research in Psychology, a "Thinking About Research" feature appears throughout the text to encourage students to think critically about published research studies in each topic area. This feature contains carefully edited summaries of published studies in the area to allow students to more easily digest current research studies and answer critical thinking questions about the studies and their methods.