Test Yourself: Cognitive Psychology: Learning through assessment

Penney Upton, Dominic Upton

SAGE, Sep 20, 2011 - Psychology - 136 pages

Test Yourself: Cognitive Psychology provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and tackle the types of questions they will face in their formal university examinations.

The book includes over 200 multiple-choice and extended multiple-choice questions, carefully designed to assess depth of knowledge. At the end of each chapter sample essay questions are provided, along with guidance, to complement the multiple-choice questions and further test understanding. In addition, information is provided to help students make sense of their results and identify strengths and weaknesses.

Contents

• 1 Introduction to cognitive psychology: 1
• 2 Perception: 10
• 3 Attention: 20
• 4 Models of memory: 29
• 5 Applied aspects of memory: 37
• 6 Cognition and emotion: 46
• 7 Cognitive neuropsychology: 55
• 8 Language: 65
• 9 Problemsolving thinking and reasoning: 76
• 10 Learning: 85
• a format for success: 95
• Scoring methods in MCQs: 97
• MCQ answers: 100

About the author

Penney Upton is a senior lecturer and course leader for psychology at the University of Worcester. Her subject specialism is developmental psychology, which she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has experience of writing for edited books and as a reviewer for psychology textbooks.

Professor Dominic Upton is Head of Psychological Sciences and Chair of Health Psychology at the University of Worcester. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. His specialist interests are in the learning and teaching of psychology. He has published widely both on this topic and on studies relating to more specific issues in health psychology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Test Yourself: Cognitive Psychology: Learning through assessment; Test Yourself ... Psychology Series
• Editors: Penney Upton, Dominic Upton
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: SAGE, 2011
• ISBN: 0857256718, 9780857256713
• Length: 136 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition; Psychology / General