Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

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Preface to Instructors • xxvii

CHAPTER 13 REASONING AND DECISION MAKING



  • Section on categorical and conditional syllogisms streamlined in response to feed-
    back that the treatment in the second edition was too detailed.

  • Section on decision making updated, with new material on how emotions affect
    decision making (using, as one example, the Deal or No Deal game show).


Ancillaries to Support Your Teaching


COGLAB 2.0 FOR GOLDSTEIN’S COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY:


CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE


Free with every new copy of this book, CogLab 2.0 lets your students do more than
just think about cognition. CogLab 2.0 uses the power of the web to teach concepts
using important classic and current experiments that demonstrate how the mind works.
Nothing is more powerful for students than seeing for themselves the effects of these
experiments! CogLab 2.0 includes features such as simplifi ed student registration, a
global database that combines data from students all around the world, between-subject
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summaries. Also included are trial-by-trial data, standard deviations, and improved
instructions.

INSTRUCTOR MANUAL/TEST BANK (ISBN 0840033583)


This supplement contains chapter outlines, discussion questions, in-class demonstra-
tions, term projects, and references to relevant websites. The test bank has approxi-
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has a section dedicated to CogLab online, providing discussion questions, experiments,
and activities.

POWERLECTURE WITH EXAMVIEW (ISBN 0840034482)


PowerLecture instructor resources are a collection of book-specifi c lecture and class
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teaching tools are an effective way to enhance the educational experience. Includes
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