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Dynamic content designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn
Integrated within the narrative, theory and concepts are brought to life through interactives and videos created to empower students to engage with concepts, and take an active role in learning. Revel's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, and videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task.
Revel's quizzing, integrated throughout as well as at the end of each module, provides students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on.
Revel's writing functionality, available in select courses, enables educators to integrate writing—among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking—into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion.
Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students customise their reading and studying experience. Instructors can add notes for students too, including reminders or study tips.
Integrated within the narrative, theory and concepts are brought to life through interactives and videos created to empower students to engage with concepts, and take an active role in learning. Revel's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, and videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task.
Revel's quizzing, integrated throughout as well as at the end of each module, provides students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on.
Revel's writing functionality, available in select courses, enables educators to integrate writing—among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking—into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion.
Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students customise their reading and studying experience. Instructors can add notes for students too, including reminders or study tips.
Dynamic content designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn brings content to life
Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts
Expanded and updated coverage of key topics areas ensures an up-to-date learning experience
- Integrated within the narrative, interactives empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. REVEL's unique presentation of media as an intrinsic part of course content brings the hallmark features of Pearson's bestselling titles to life. REVEL's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, so students stay focused and on task.
- End-of-chapter quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding before moving on.
- The REVEL mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates.
- REVEL’s writing functionality enables educators to introduce writing — among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking — into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion.
- Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.
Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts
- REVEL’s assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up.
- REVEL’s performance dashboard lets educators monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track.
- REVEL’s Blackboard Learn™ integration provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their REVEL courses. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access REVEL’s interactive blend of authors' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which REVEL grades should be transferred to the Blackboard Gradebook.
Expanded and updated coverage of key topics areas ensures an up-to-date learning experience
- Integrated directly into the text narrative, a video illustrates the phenomenon of change blindness. This depiction of a card trick demonstrates how people fail to notice a difference between successive scenes, helping students to understand change blindness — which can be hard to fathom through static text alone.
- UPDATED! Coverage of perception includes global/local processing, synesthesia and multisensory integration, embodiment and perception and its connection to weapon focus, perception and sport, subliminal perception, scene recognition, and object recognition through touch.
- UPDATED! Coverage of attention and immediate memory includes inattentional blindness, distracted driving, load theory, theories of immediate memory, and applied issues in immediate memory — mind-wandering, enhancing and training executive function.
- UPDATED! Coverage of memory includes effective techniques for student learning, survival-related processing, metacognition, implicit memory, eyewitness memory and identification, flashbulb memories and memories for 9/11, childhood amnesia, and functions of autobiographical memory.
- UPDATED! Coverage of language, problem solving and decision making includes work on parent-child interaction and language learning, active involvement in problem solving, dual processes in problem solving and decision making, reasoning biases, and improvement of decision making.
Table of contents
1. Cognition as the Study of Information Processing
2. Perception and Consciousness
3. Mechanisms of Attention
4. Immediate Memory
5. Concepts and Categories of Object Recognition
6. Basic Processes in Long-Term Memory
7. The Reconstructive Nature of Memory
8. Autobiographical Memory
9. Basic Issues in Language and Speech Processing
10. Reading and Comprehending Text
11. Judgments and Decisions
12. Problem Solving
2. Perception and Consciousness
3. Mechanisms of Attention
4. Immediate Memory
5. Concepts and Categories of Object Recognition
6. Basic Processes in Long-Term Memory
7. The Reconstructive Nature of Memory
8. Autobiographical Memory
9. Basic Issues in Language and Speech Processing
10. Reading and Comprehending Text
11. Judgments and Decisions
12. Problem Solving
Author bios
Dr. Bridget Robinson-Riegler received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Purdue University, and has taught Cognitive Psychology and Research Methods for 20 years at Augsburg College. She has published a number of articles in leading journals, primarily on memory. She has authored or co-authored instructor’s manuals for introductory psychology and psychology of aging.
Dr. Gregory L. Robinson-Riegler received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Purdue University, and has taught Cognitive Psychology for 25 years at the University of St. Thomas. He has co-authored research articles in several leading journals, primarily on memory. In addition, he has co-authored instructor’s manuals for two introductory psychology texts.
Dr. Gregory L. Robinson-Riegler received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Purdue University, and has taught Cognitive Psychology for 25 years at the University of St. Thomas. He has co-authored research articles in several leading journals, primarily on memory. In addition, he has co-authored instructor’s manuals for two introductory psychology texts.
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