Cognitive Psychology

Sixth edition of this highly acclaimed and accessible student textbook, with increased emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, a new chapter on cognition and emotion and, significantly, they owe final chapter on consciousness. The first four parts the deal with visual perception and attention, memory, language, thinking and reasoning. The last part is on broadening horizons, containing the new chapters. Prominence is given to global workspace theory, according to which a selective attention helps us determine the information of which we become aware, although there is also evidence that conscious awareness can precede selective attention. There are online links for both instructors and students, including reference links to key journal articles and even a chapter by chapter PowerPoint lecture course.