Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies

Eysenck, Michael W. & David Groome

ISBN 10: 1446294471 / ISBN 13: 9781446294475

Published by SAGE Publications, London, 2015

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Examination of 14 classic papers & their influence on modern scholars. Studies commented on are Cherry (1953), Gibson (1950), Marr (1982), Goodale & Milner (1992), Stroop (1935), Scoville & Milner (1957), Baddeley & Hitch (1974), Tulving (1972), Tulving & Thomson (1973), Newell, Shaw, & Simon (1958), Tversky & Kahneman (1974), Kahneman & Tversky (1979), Chomsky (1957) and Marshall & Newcombe (1973). Paperback. Light wear, minor rubbing, upper corner bumped & creased, affecting some pages. Text clean; xi, [3], 210 pages; index, references, figures. Size: 6¾" by 9½".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1446294471
• ISBN 13: 9781446294475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today.  It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. 

Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Chomsky, Tulving and Stroop to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.    

Suitable for students on cognitive psychology courses at all levels, as well as anyone with an enquiring mind. 

About the Authors

Michael W. Eysenck is Emeritus Professor at the University of Roehampton and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published 62 books and approximately 170 articles and book chapters. He has written numerous textbooks on cognitive psychology and his main research area is concerned with the relationship between anxiety and cognition.

David Groome was Senior Academic and Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Westminster, London. He retired in 2011, but he continues to write and he has authored or co-authored twelve psychology books. His research interests mainly involve cognition and memory, especially memory suppression and the effects of mood disorders on cognition. In 2009 he was awarded the BPS Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology. His hobbies include tennis, travel, dogs, and music. In his spare time he is a keen guitarist, and is still waiting for his big break as a rock star.