Cognitive Psychology

by Ken Gilhooly, Fiona Lyddy, Frank Pollick

Based on a multidisciplinary approach, the book encourages students to make the connections between cognition, cognitive neuroscience and behaviour. The book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the subject, showing students the relevance of cognitive psychology through a range of examples, applications and international research. Recent work from neuroscience is integrated throughout the book, and coverage is given to rapidly-developing topics, such as emotion and cognition.

Genres: Psychology

536 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2014

Reviews

[Elise Breivik · Rating 1 out of 5]

suck my ass

[Gabri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book on cognitive processes. From vision to language to emotion to decision making: this book captures it all. Every chapter comes with relevant terms and its definitions, illustrations of important brain areas, descriptions and illustrations of relevant research outcomes, and, what interested me the most, 'When things go wrong': a recurring item on the impact of brain damage. Worth reading if you want to be amazed by the complexity of the brain without being bothered by complex scientific language.

[✧₊⁺ dori ᯓᡣ𐭩 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Made me want to shoot myself

[Iselin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have never read a textbook before and thought the author should retire. I have now.
I have never read worse academic writing in my life in terms of grammar. Run-on-sentences that go six lines down the page. Explaining simple terms with huge words that have easier synonyms in roundabout ways. Academese at its worst. The book is incredibly poorly structured as well. Themes are introduced and then come and go throughout the chapter instead of being contained to one part. Most of the text wasn’t even relevant and two the point and sometimes we were given like five examples illustrating a single point! As a general thing there were also too many theories presented so none stuck.
It was extremely frustrating to have a book this difficult on top of the fact that our lecturer was incapable of lecturing. I have no idea how this exam will go.
I appreciate that definitions are included in the margins. It’s a shame that some of this content is genuinely interesting and something I would like to work with in the future.

[Omkar Mak · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worst book ever.
Do not waste your money on buying this book as there are many other cognitive books available with better content in terms of the quality and ease of understanding. There are even a few concepts of which the pioneering scientists aren't even named. The entire text is incoherent with no flow whatsoever.

[Martiss Bartiss · Rating 1 out of 5]

Study commas
Study academic writing
Study "verbosity"
Study the art of dividing paragraphs

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