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Cognition | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret W. Matlin
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
Buy Used: $27.50
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1925
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471450073
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN: 9780471450078
ASIN: 0471450073
Publication Date: August 3, 2004
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Product Description
This text's success has come in large part from its up-to-date coverage of important research and theories and offers the latest and most comprehensive overview of cognition on the market today. Recent developments in perception, imagery, problem solving, and creativity are highlighted along with advances in such areas as memory and language and expanded theoretical approaches.
* Up-to-date, carefully revised coverage of topics
* Clear, engaging writing with numerous examples: Students do not need to struggle to understand overly complex descriptions
* Extensive, useful pedagogical devices
* Application of cognitive psychology to other disciplines: Many applications relate to careers that students may intend to pursue, such as education, communication, business, consumer psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, medicine, and law
* Margaret Matlin has a strong reputation for her research in cognitive psychology
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 For Once a Great Textbook July 9, 2008
I just graduated Collage and this is one of two books I'm keeping. We read it from cover to cover for my class and I didn't mind, I wanted to read it. Its very well written and accessible.
 Psychology instructor gives this one star July 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I taught a section of cognitive psychology and decided to use this book. What a mistake. The discussions in this book are terrible, and are really more so a long progression of random key words for students to memorize than organized and in depth explorations of topics. The discussion of memory is ridiculous. I have used intro to psych books that had better and more thorough discussions. For judgment and decision making I didn't use the book at all, it's discussion was so bad. This very amateurish book is filled with WAY too many first-person stories and anecdotes for any serious textbook. I kept asking myself, is this a college textbook, or Matlin's damn diary?
 Review June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is your typical text book used in college courses. It is very easy to read and make your own notes on each section. I found that at the end of each section, there was a section summary which is helpful. I used the section summaries to study for exams. Overall, I would recommended this book for Psychology majors or anyone else who was interested in cognition.
 Good information, terrible presentation April 4, 2002
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
As a psychology minor, I think Matlin does a wonderfully thorough job of covering cognition. However, as an English major, I find her style of writing irritatingly repetitive, and much more confusing than it needs to be. She uses a lot of examples to define concepts, rather than stating them--which would be very helpful. Furthermore, the glossary does absolutely nothing to help the confused student, since it basically reprints the in-text sentence where the vocabulary word appears. I would recommend sending the book to a literary editor who could redo the text.
Very helpful!! December 26, 2000
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I took Dr. Matlin's Cognitive Psychology class last semester at SUNY Geneseo, and we used this book. It is excellent! Its style is very readable but the material is not watered down. The language makes the material very easy to understand. As I read it, I could almost hear her speaking! The examples are very useful in demonstrating the concepts presented. Dr. Matlin details many practical applications of cognitive psychology, such as study strategies, which would be of interest to educators, psychologists, and students alike.
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