Product Description

The textbook of choice for students and lecturers in the field, this fifth edition has been substantially updated and restructured in line with new developments in cognitive psychology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2325 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 656 pages

Ian Gordon, University of Exeter
Eysenck and Keane describe complicated things elegantly and lucidly. I do not think the material could have been better presented.

David E. Over, Psychology Division, University of Sunderland
[Eysenck and Keane's] many astute and judicious comments will benefit both advanced researchers and students new to these subject areas.

From the Back Cover

This fifth edition of the bestselling international cognitive psychology textbook has been substantially updated and restructured to reflect new developments in cognitive psychology, and made more student friendly.

Established approaches covered in depth include:

• Experimental cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science with its focus on modelling
• Cognitive neuropsychology with its focus on cognition following brain damage.

Extensive new material in this edition includes:

• Cognitive neuroscience approaches such as brain scanning and imaging studies which illustrate the principles of brain function
• New material on consciousness.

Throughout, the new material is fully integrated with more traditional approaches to create a comprehensive, coherent and totally current overview of perception, attention, memory, concepts, language, problem solving, judgement and reasoning.

A new two-colour design, plus a rich array of supplementary multimedia materials, make this new edition more accessible and entertaining for students.

The multimedia materials include:

• A PowerPoint lecture course and MCQ Test Bank free to qualifying adopters
• A unique web-based Student Learning Program. This is an interactive revision program incorporating a rich array of multimedia resources including interactive exercises and demonstrations, and active reference links to journal articles. This will be offered on a subscription basis to departments adopting the text. A free demonstration of a sample chapter is available to potential subscribers at http://www.psypress.com/ek5/ .

Customer Reviews

Eysenk and Keane
VEry useful book for my first year cognition lectures, and it's been recommended as a core text for 2nd year aswell. Readable, and not too complex to understand.

Good-but very technical
This is a great into to cognitive therapy but I would also recommend FREE YOUR MIND by Anthony Stultz as a more comprehensive user-friendly book for those who want to go back to the original cognitive philosophy.

Useful if you can understand it
This was a recommended text for my cognitive psychology course, and it was most definitely a great boon to the work that I had to do in that course, as it contained a lot of information in easy to follow chapters. However, the book fell into the psychology cliché of being bland and monotonous, and not always easy to understand.

This book makes an excellent reference guide for specific theories on cognitive areas of psychology, and is best taken one section at a time, and in light of this wil be a very useful tool for any cognitive psychology module, be it on memory, perception or other areas.