Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology

David Groome was formerly Principal Lecturer and Senior Academic in Psychology at the University of Westminster, where he worked from 1970 to 2011. His research interests include cognition and memory, and their relationship with clinical disorders. He has published a number of research papers on these topics and is the co-author of 12 previous textbooks.Michael W. Eysenck is Professorial Fellow at Roehampton University and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is especially interested in cognitive psychology and most of his research focuses on the role of cognitive factors in anxiety within normal and clinical populations. He has published nearly 50 books and about 160 book chapters and journal articles.

• 1. Introduction 2. Visual perception and attention 3. Face identification 4. Auditory perception 5. Working memory and performance limitations 6. Memory improvement 7. Everyday memory 8. Witness interviewing and crime investigation 9. Decision making 10. Drugs and cognitive performance 11. Biological cycles and cognitive performance 12. Emotion and cognition 13. Music and cognition 14. Sporting performance, pressure, and cognition