Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience

These student book prices, sale price and rental are reliable and lower than our respective colleges.

I am a student and this was the required book for my Cognition & Memory course. I personally found a lot of the details boring, but that was purely because of the subject matter. The book itself explains the concepts very well and the author makes a strong effort to "speak" to the reader. He "talks" about himself and his life where applicable and he will refer to the reader directly in the text. Once I started reading the later chapters, I actually enjoyed reading the textbook. I felt like I had somewhat of a connection with the author. Also, the "key terms" at the end of the chapters and the definitions in the back were really helpful. Additionally, when I actually started doing the "Test yourself" portion at the end of each section I saw my grades go up (from an A to an A+). In my opinion, E. Bruce Goldstein did a good job. And that's not just because I'm Jewish.

I like the format of the textbook and that it is in good condition.

Ordered and paid for a new book but the one I received had excessive markings through the whole book from a someone else. Corners of the book are worn and bent in also.

Really did not like this book. I have my bachelors in psychology so I've used a lot of psychology books. The book jumped around a lot, over-explaining most subjects to the point of confusion and under-explaining others. The cog lab can be purchased seperately for $50 through their website and the quality is lacking for the extra $$. I took this class voluntarily as an elective and wished I hadn't. It's a shame because this course may be very interesting with another teaching material.I rented this through Amazon for a college course. You can't beat the rent price for a semester. Shipped fast and easy to return. Book came with lots of highlighted marks but didn't affect the reading the text.

I waited an entire month for this book. Only to receive the third edition. I'm disappointed in my purchase. I have to take a test next week. Hopefully I do well.EDIT: Talked with the seller and was very professional. Nice lady who sells many books at Amazon. ISBN numbers got mixed up and a mistake was made. I overreacted when writing this comment, and I realized I should look through the perspective of other people and have a little empathy.

I just have to use it for a class I'm taking, but I feel like it only touches on some important people/events/experiments and delves too much into things that don't pertain to the chapter or section. I am also particularly peeved that the author spent 4 paragraphs in excruciating detail to explain how flow charts work as if people don't already know how they work.Does the textbook do it's job at explaining stuff? Yes. Does it over-explain some trivial topics and is just a waste of pages? Also yes. It teaches you what you need to know, but to me, the book is just okay.

Very good book. Keeping it and not selling it after I got an A in this class. It will be useful to me in the future.

Book delivery on time, great quality of product and professional service. Thanks

Product was as described, received quickly . Thanks!

Fast delivery and good product

As others state, no cog lab included which is very misleading

Great packaging, new, and clean copy of the textbook - thanks Amazon!The textbook itself is really approachable and conversational. I was surprised how much I liked reading it (well, as much as someone could enjoy reading a textbook on Cognitive Psychology). Some of the theories and arguments put forth in the textbook aren't entirely substantiated (as my prof sometimes pointed out in class) because of newer research inserting some doubt in the textbook's claims.However, it's a great introductory textbook to get a foundation for further investigation!