Handbook of Applied Cognition

Cognitive psychology is the basis of many applications in almost every area of technology, business, industry, and education. This book provides workers in applied arenas with presentations of research aimed directly at the problems and issues that confront them. It will cover key areas including business and industry, computers and technology, education and information, and health and law. Partial table of contents:

OVERVIEWS.

Applying Cognitive Psychology: Bridging the Gulf Between BasicResearch and Cognitive Artifacts (D. Gillan & R.Schvaneveldt).

Applications of Attention Research (W. Rogers, et al.).

Knowledge and Expertise (N. Charness & R. Schultetus).

Applications of Social Cognition: Attitudes as Cognitive Structures(L. Fabrigar, et al.).

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.

The Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Engineering of IndustrialSystems (N. Moray).

Applied Cognition in Consumer Research (J. Alba & J.Hutchinson).

COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY.

Devices that Remind (D. Herrmann, et al.).

Knowledge Elicitation (N. Cooke).

INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTION.

Statistical Graphs and Maps (S. Lewandowsky & J.Behrens).

Instructional Technology (R. Mayer).

Cognitive Psychology Applied to Testing (S. Embretson).

HEALTH AND LAW.

Medical Cognition (V. Patel, et al.).

Designing Healthcare Advice for the Public (P. Wright).

Perspectives on Jury Decision-Making: Cases with Pretrial Publicityand Cases Based on Eyewitness Identifications (J. Devenport, etal.).

Indexes.

Francis T. Durso and Raymond S. Nickerson are the authors of Handbook of Applied Cognition, published by Wiley. The Handbook of Applied Cognition provides a unique and comprehensive review and synthesis of the applied research areas that have benefited from the perspectives, methods and techniques of cognitive psychology and cognitive engineering. The Handbook opens by looking at the relationship between applied and basic research and goes on to overview applied research from various perspectives familiar to most cognitive psychologists, including knowledge and expertise; memory; judgement and decision making; human error; and social cognition. The chapters that follow focus on particular applied domains and are categorized under the following headings:

• business and industry
• computers and technology
• information and instruction
• health and law

Together these chapters provide a thorough review of each area, a detailed presentation of methodology and techniques, and discussions where appropriate concerning relationships to existing theory and models. With contributions from prestigious international researchers, the Handbook of Applied Cognition provides an authoritative resource and reference both for basic and applied researchers in the fields of psychology, industrial engineering, education, computer science, health and law. It will also appeal to advanced students covering the burgeoning field of applied cognition.