Cognition: The Thinking Animal: Int'l Ed [Paperback] 3e by Daniel T. Willingham

Product details Brand New Paperback : 600 pages ISBN-10 : 0131789287 ISBN-13 : 9780131789289 Product Dimensions : 23.6 x 2.3 x 17.9 cm Publisher : Pearson (15 Mar. 2006) 3rd Ed Language: : English   Description For undergraduate courses of beginning graduate courses in Introductory Cognitive Psychology.Using a unique question-and-answer format, this text comprehensively addresses many of the overarching questions that confront and motivate today's cognitive scientists.When Daniel Willingham first approached the prospect of creating his own cognitive psychology text, he did so with the knowledge that his years of teaching experience had brought him: while many texts were relatively adequate in coverage, his students never liked them. Usually underexposed to social sciences in pre-college courses, he found his students often struggled with understanding how and why cognitive psychologists approach the problems that they do. Here, by using a unique question-and-answer format, he is able