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Cognition
COGNITION offers a comprehensive overview of cognition, including recent developments in perception, imagery, problem solving, and creativity. Advances in such areas as memory and language are also discussed with expanded theoretical approaches. This text is celebrated for its up-to-date coverage of important research and theories, as well as the extensive references. Margaret Matlin's commitment to current research, accessible writing, demonstrations, real-world applications, and student-oriented pedagogy has made this book a leader in the cognition course area.
Sensation and Perception
Sensation and Perception, Fifth Edition maintains the standard of clarity and coverage set in earlier editions, which make the technical scientific information accessible to a wide range of students. The authors have received national awards for their teaching and are fully responsible for the content and organization of the text. As a result, it features strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and an engaging conversational style.
Psychology
This text focuses on the crux of psychology - the science of the human mind as researched and reported by today's practising psychologists and as applied to daily life. Substantially revised, the Second Edition offers coverage of ethnicity/race and gender, strong organization, current references, and memorable examples.
Cognitive Psychology
Matlin’s Cognition demonstrates how cognitive processes are relevant to everyday, real-world experiences, and frequently examines how cognition can be applied to other disciplines such as clinical psychology, social psychology, consumer psychology, education, communication, business, medicine, and law. The 8th edition continues to relate cognitive topics to applications in everyday life. This edition is fully updated with research and additional anecdotes. It also includes more research on neuroscience.
The Psychology of Women
This highly respected, best-selling book offers an enjoyable, extraordinarily well-written introduction to the psychology of women. Appropriate for readers from a wide variety of backgrounds, this comprehensive book depicts women's experiences through direct quotations and an emphasis on empirical research. Known for its balance of scholarship, readability, and inclusion of various kinds of women, the text reflects a genuine interest in and understanding of the readers for whom it was written. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN, International Edition includes a chapter on old age as well as discussions of topics such as welfare issues, pregnancy, and women's retirement, which are central in many women's lives but not consistently covered in other texts.
The Psychology of Women and Gender
Examine the psychology behind women and gender with the engaging narrative and latest research in Matlin/Foushee's best-selling THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND GENDER, 8E. This well-written comprehensive introduction is known for its balanced scholarship, readability and inclusion of intersectional and LGBTQIA+ perspectives. The authors demonstrate a genuine interest in and understanding of you, the reader. This edition's captivating presentation uses direct quotes and empirical research from multiple academic disciplines to accurately depict today's gendered experiences. Updates incorporate research from 2020 or later as this edition examines topics that are central to women's lives but are often not addressed by other authors. Complete chapters discuss childhood, adolescence, aging, love relationships, motherhood, physical and mental health. Material also explores economic issues, social class, ethnic and gender diversity, pregnancy and retirement for women.
No More Dancing the Jig
Margaret Matlin is a thirtysomething woman who dares to pursue the ultimate goal of womanhood: absolute happiness. Spurred on by a prophetic dream and blessed with beauty, a secure intelligence, and an avaricious drive, she chooses to go after what will satisfy her maximum sensibility. Leaving behind the restrictive profession of teaching Englishwhich she feels has sapped her creativityMargaret decides to expand her horizons and let a more conscious fate be her guide. She pledges to find her truth in the world, setting out to build a brand-new life for herself with the help of those around her. Along the way, she befriends many, finding infinite wisdom and insight into how our individual destinies can be suppressed for so long and yet be uplifting and rewarding once discovered. Offering an intriguing character study, this novel follows the path of one woman as she re-creates herself in the pursuit of a happiness too good for words.
Cognitive Illusions
Cognitive Illusions explores a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, the book defines what cognitive illusions are and discusses their theoretical status: are such illusions proof for a faulty human information-processing system, or do they only represent by-products of otherwise adaptive cognitive mechanisms? Throughout the book, background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence and hindsight bias are discussed, before considering the respective empirical research, potential explanations of the phenomenon, and relevant applied perspectives. Each chapter also features the detailed description of an experiment that can be used as classroom demonstration. Featuring six new chapters, this edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect recent research and changes of focus within the field. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of cognitive illusions, specifically, those focusing on thinking, reasoning, decision-making and memory.
Psychological Testing
"Psychological Testing by Theresa J. B. Kline is an accessible, easy-to-read book that effectively communicates the current concepts, trends, and controversies in the field of psychological testing. Readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of psychometrics in a format that will keep their attention and that they will be able to relate to the significance of psychological testing across numerous areas such as schools, businesses, clinical settings, military, or government." -Todd L. Chmielewski, PsycCRITIQUES, December 7, 2005 VOL. 50, NO. 49, ARTICLE 12 Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach to Design and Evaluation offers a fresh and innovative approach to students and faculty in...
