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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas L Medin; Brian H Ross; Arthur B Markman |
OCLC Number: | 56190114 |
Notes: | Originally published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, ©2005. 4th ed. |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Overview: Possibilities, information, and approaches to the study of the mind -- Acquiring information: Learning; Perception; Attention -- Memory: Memory, remembering new information; Memory systems and knowledge; Remembering new information, beyond basic effects; Spatial knowledge, imagery, and visual memory -- Language and understanding: Language; Concepts and categories, representation and use -- Thinking: Reasoning; Problem solving; Expertise and creativity; Judgment and decision making -- Glossary. |
Responsibility: | Douglas L. Medin, Brian H. Ross, Arthur B. Markman. |
Abstract:
Ambiguity and adaptive responses to it provide some broad themes that serve to organize this book. [The authors] hope to provide the framework to allow students to better appreciate not just a series of interesting phenomena in different areas of research but some basic commonalities that cut across these areas. A second, closely related goal is to encourage the student to gain an appreciation for methods by which researchers study the mind. [This book] examines a wide variety of activities and tries to provide an understanding that captures many of them. A third goal of the book is to convey challenges and open questions associated with the field of cognition.-Pref.
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