Psychology of Sensation & Perception

Helping you understand how you perceive what's around you---the wonder of seeing a face, hearing music, and smelling a rose---is what Goldstein's PSYCHOLOGY OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION is all about. Writing clearly and using color illustrations to clarify concepts, Goldstein shows you the importance of perception to your life. "Test Yourself" questions exercises help you review and retain the material. Features: * An emphasis on the newest research is apparent throughout the text. * The text has been streamlined to increase student readability and to make each unit easy to teach in a variety of course schedules. * New "Method" sections have been added throughout the text. * New "Something to Consider "sections, the last section of every chapter, is designed to lead into the next chapter and discuss thought provoking issues brought up in the chapter * Demonstrations provide perceptual experiences that illustrate principles discussed in the text. Table Of Contents: 1. Introduction to Perception. 2. Introduction to the Physiology of Perception. 3. Neurons and Perception. 4. The Organized Brain. 5. Perceiving Objects. 6. Visual Attention. 7. Perceiving Color. 8. Perceiving Depth and Size. 9. Perceiving Movement. 10. Perception and Action. 11. Sound, the Auditory System, and Pitch Perception. 12. Sound Localization and the Auditory Scene. 13. Speech Perception.