About the Book
This reader offers articles that students can relate to several different facets of cognition, as well as other sub-disciplines of psychology. Topics such as the distinction between top-down and bottom-up processing, divided attention, proactive interference, language learnability, and expertise are presented in these up-to-date, highly informative, and interesting articles. This is a research reader students will find interesting, applicable, and extremely relevant to their course and lives. Students will get a good deal of exposure to the fundamental concepts that have helped define the field of cognitive psychology.
Table of Contents:
PERCEPTION, ATTENTION, AND WORKING MEMORY. Rosen, D. L., & Singh, S. N. (1992). An investigation of the subliminal embed effect on multiple measures of advertising effectiveness. Psychology and Marketing, 9, 157-173. Silverstein, S. (1996). Reduced top-down influence in auditory perceptual organization in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 663-667. Strayer, D. L., & Johnston, W. A. (2001). Driven to distraction: Dual-task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. Psychological Science, 12, 462-466. Conway, A.R., Cowan, N. A., & Bunting, M. F. (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 331-335. MEMORY PROCESSES AND DISTORTIONS. Walbaum, S. D. (1997). Marking time: The effect of timing on appointment keeping. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 361-368. Schmidt, S. R., & Williams, A. R. (2001). Memory for humorous cartoons. Memory and Cognition, 29, 305-311. Furnham, A., & Bradley, A. (1997). Music while you work: The differential distraction of background music on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 445-455. Braun, K. A., Ellis, R., & Loftus, E. F. (2002). Make my memory: How advertising can change our memories of the past. Psychology and Marketing, 19, 1-23. Underwood, J., & Pezdek, K. (1998). Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 449-453. Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. (2002). Twins dispute memory ownership: A new false memory phenomenon. Memory and Cognition, 29, 779-788. LANGUAGE PROCESSES. Au, T. K., Knightly, L. M., Jun, S., & Oh, J. S. (2002). Overhearing a language during childhood. Psychological Science, 13, 238-243. Fox Tree, J. E. (2001). Listeners' use of um and uh in speech comprehension. Memory and Cognition, 29, 320-326. Chiappe, P., Hasher, L., & Siegel, L. S. (2000). Working memory, inhibitory control, and reading disability. Memory and Cognition, 28, 8-17. Foertsch, J., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (1997). In search of gender neutrality: Is singular they a cognitively efficient substitute for generic he? Psychological Science, 8, 106-111. REASONING, DECISION MAKING, AND PROBLEM SOLVING. McGlone, M. S., & Tofighbakhsh, J. (2000). Birds of a feather flock conjointly (?): Rhyme as reason in aphorisms. Psychological Science, 11, 424-428. Crowley, K., Callanan, M. A., Tenenbaum, H. R., & Allen, E. (2001). Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12, 258-261. Louie, T. A., Curren, M. T., & Harich, K. R. (2000). " I knew we would win": Hindsight bias for favorable and unfavorable team decision outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 264-272. Noice, H. (1990). Elaborative memory strategies of professional actors. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 417-427. Vosburg, S. (1998). The effects of positive and negative mood on divergent thinking performance. Creativity Research Journal, 11, 165-172.
