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Baddeley, Eysenck & Anderson: Memory
This full-color textbook presents a thorough, accessible and appealing overview of the field of Memory, written by some of the world's leading researchers with students in mind.
It starts with a brief overview and explanation of the scientific approach to memory before going on to discuss the basic characteristics of the various memory systems and how they work.
Summaries of short-term and working memory are followed by chapters on learning, the role of organization in memory, the ways in which our knowledge of the world is stored, retrieval, and on intentional and motivated forgetting.
Eysenck: Fundamentals of Psychology
Aimed at those new to the subject, Fundamentals of Psychology is a clear and reader-friendly full-color textbook that will help students explore and understand the essentials of psychology.
It offers a balanced and accurate representation of the discipline through a highly accessible synoptic approach, which seamlessly brings together all the various related topics.
In particular, it gives sufficient emphasis to the place of cognitive psychology in the field and also includes substantial coverage of current research.
Fundamentals of Psychology combines an authoritative tone, a huge range of psychological material and an informal, analogy-rich style.
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Mather: Foundations of Sensation and Perception: 2nd Edition
This full-color textbook provides students with a thorough analysis of our perceptual experience, how it relates to the physical properties of the world and how it is linked to the biological properties of the brain.
The first edition of this comprehensive introduction to Sensation and Perception has been highly praised for its unique approach, which begins with the minor senses and progresses to vision.
This approach allows students to thoroughly grasp the fundamental principles in relation to the relatively simple sensory systems before moving on to the more complex topics.
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Goswami: Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain
Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling Cognition in Children.
This full-color textbook has been re-written from the perspective of brain science and shows how new discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider traditional theories of cognitive development.
Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is supported by an extensive online Cognitive Development Student Learning Program (CogDevSLP) and CD-ROM of Instructor Resources, both of which are free of charge to qualifying adopters and their students.
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Smith & Mackie - Social Psychology
Social Psychology, 3rd Edition provides the only conceptually integrated undergraduate introduction to social psychology, offering a clear synthesis of the cognitive and social, and individual and group influences that shape social behavior.
Extensive feedback from reviews of prior editions has helped make this third edition comprehensive, contemporary, and relevant to social psychology students' and instructors' needs. Effective and helpful pedagogical features include chapter summaries, margin glossaries, tables, graphs, and photographs.
An attractive student-friendly format, and a narrative by two leading scholars that is both lively and rigorous, make this text one of the most respected and acclaimed on the market.
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The Psychology of Language, 3rd Edition, is a thorough revision and update of the popular second edition.
It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language: how we understand, produce, and store language. This new edition contains new chapters on how children learn to read, and how language is used in everyday settings. It also describes recent research on the impact of new techniques of brain imaging.
For the first time, a CD-ROM of supplementary materials is available to qualified adopters.
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New Section - Careers & Student Resources
We've added a new section covering books which provide advice and guidance on studying Psychology at university, and the career opportunities available after graduating.
The four key books are:
- A Student's Guide to Studying Psychology, by Thomas M. Heffernan
- Giving Professional Presentations in the Behavioral Sciences and Related Fields, by Michael J. Platow
- Life After Graduate School in Psychology, edited by Robert D. Morgan, Tara L. Kuther & Corey J. Habbea
- How to Become a Clinical Psychologist, by Alice Knight
Please check out the new section, and of course you can also ask for (and give) advice on our Student Psychology Discussion Forum.
Free Introductory Psychology Student Learning Program
Psychology Press is proud to present our Introductory Psychology student learning program, which is now free of charge to all users.
The Student Learning Program for our introductory textbook Psychology: An International Perspective by Michael Eysenck provides a unique set of revision notes with interactive resources, covering the whole of psychology.
It can be used as a standalone resource, but refers to page numbers in the textbook Psychology: An International Perspective for further reading.
We have also developed a more sophisticated Student Learning Program to support our best-selling textbook Cognitive Psychology, 5th edition by Michael Eysenck. This is available on a subscription basis to university psychology departments, but a sample chapter on memory is free.
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Student Psychology provides online interactive resources, revision aids and information for undergraduate psychology students or those interested in studying for a psychology degree or a similar university or college qualification. Student Psychology also contains links to multimedia eLearning material to tie in with the best-selling psychology course textbooks.
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