Description

Sage Course Companions are an exciting new series from Sage offering students an insider′s guide into how to make the most of their undergraduate courses and extend their understanding of key concepts covered in their course.

Cognitive Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in cognitive psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements in cognitive psychology.

This Course Companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course.

Key Features:

Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid lecture notes, seminars and written assignments Key summaries of the approach taken by the main cognitive psychology textbooks
Guidance on the essential study skills required
Help with developing critical thinking
Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond textbooks
Pointers to success in course exams
A tutor′s-eye view of what course examiners are looking for
An insider′s view of what key course concepts are really all about

This companion is aimed at the cognitive psychology student who wants to gain the necessary skills allowing them to practically apply and fully utilize their general understanding of the core areas of this branch of psychology. It will be targeted, primarily, at the specifications of undergraduate students in psychology departments. The purpose is to provide pedagogical and assessment support, and an overview of the discipline. The book would also be of value to students of the social sciences in cognate disciplines taking cognitive psychology as an elective course.