Everyday Thinking

<p>Appropriate as a textbook for courses in cognitive psychology or social cognition <i>Everyday Thinking</i> reviews the rapidly growing literature on cognition in naturalistic settings. It differs from other textbooks in that where possible it focuses on thinking in real-world settings rather than in controlled laboratory settings and provides detailed treatments of each of the following topics: <br> * how we form impressions of and represent persons in memory; <br> * how we recognize and represent faces; <br> * how we reason in our day-to-day lives and go about solving everyday problems; <br> * how we make judgments and decisions; <br> * how we encode memories of events--both for future action and for our own life histories; and <br> * what are some of the implications of everyday knowledge and cognition for education and instruction. <br><br> This book presents the theoretical positions and research evidence on each of these topics and examines the generally unexplored connections among them. As a result this book presents the study of cognition in a more relevant form and in a context that readers can more readily apply to their own lives.</p>