This fall I will be a novice adjunct teaching an undergraduate cognitive psychology class. I would appreciate any textbook recommendations you would care to make. Peter, I posed the same question late last semester, and received several replies both on-list and off-list. (This gives me a chance to say a belated thank you to all those people!) I will forward copies of those replies to you off-list. After reviewing the suggested books, I ended up deciding on Daniel Willingham's Cognition: The Thinking Animal (Prentice-Hall, 2001). I believe that Willingham is on TIPS, but was probably too modest to promote his book here. So, I'll do it for him: This text is easily one of the most engaging textbooks I've ever read. His easy-going, informal writing style really draws the reader in! He doesn't sacrifice coverage for the sake of readability, though. I also like the questions at the end of the chapter. There is a companion website to the text, but I haven't used it yet. My students agree with my opinions of the book (although I should point out that I am lucky enough to have a class of only 7 students!). I don't cover all the topics in the same order as Willingham does, but haven't found that changing the order of a few chapters is a problem. Let me know if I can provide more info. Marcia Marcia McKinley, JD, PhD Mount St. Mary's College
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