CogLab Online Version 2.0 (with Printed Access Card) 4e

Greg Francis, Purdue University Ian Neath, Memorial University 160pp Published by Cengage Learning, ©2007 Available Now £23.99

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COGLAB 2 is an interactive online laboratory where students can run demonstrations of more than 40 classical experiments and concepts from cognitive psychology. COGLAB 2 lets the instructor set up an online class group to track the results of students' experiences with each of the interactive cognitive demonstrations. The class is then able to collect and analyze real data based on their specific class group. This hands-on experience helps students understand each experiment, its underlying cognitive concepts, the data, and the significance of the study. The printed STUDENT MANUAL contains material on the experiments as well as the pincode students need to access COGLAB. COGLAB can be accessed from anywhere in the world through the internet with a Web Browser that supports java programming.

Features

• Adopting Instructors get a free account, enabling them to test all experiments.
• The INSTRUCTOR''S MANUAL is available in PDF for download at the CogLab Web site.
• Instructors can view textual and graphical data created by students (summary plot or data table and trial by trial data for the whole group) as they complete each experiment. CogLab automatically computes average data across students in the group and the instructor and the students can then view the average data.

Part I: ATTENTION.
1. Attentional Blink.
2. Simon Effect.
3. Spatial Cueing.
4. Stroop Effect.
Part II: PERCEPTION.
5. Apparent Motion.
6. Garner Interference.
7. Muller-Lyer Illusion.
8. Signal Detection.
9. Visual Search.
Part III: NEUROCOGNITION.
9. Brain Asymmetry.
10. Blind Spot.
11. Receptive Fields.
Part IV: SENSORY MEMORY.
12. Metacontrast Masking.
13. Modality Effect.
14. Partial Report.
15. Suffix Effect.
Part V: SHORT-TERM MEMORY.
16. Brown-Peterson.
17. Position Error.
18. Sternberg Search.
Part VI. Working Memory.
19. Irrelevant Speech Effect.
20. Memory Span.
21. Operation Span.
22. Phonological Similarity Effect.
Part VII: MEMORY PROCESS.
23. Encoding Specificity.
24. Levels of Processing.
25. Serial Posiion.
26. Van Restorff Effect.
Part VIII: Metamemory.
27. False Memory.
28. Forgot-It-All-Along.
29. Remember/Know.
Part IX: Imagery.
30. Link Word.
31. Mental Rotation.
Part X: Speech and Language.
32. Categorical Perception-Identification.
33. Categorical Perception-Discrimination.
34. Lexical Decision.
35. Word Superiority.
Part XI: CONCEPTS.
36. Absolute Identification.
37. Implicit Learning.
38. Prototypes.
Part XII: JUDGEMENT.
39. Monty Hall.
40. Decision Making.
41. Risky Decisions.
42. Typical Reasoning.
43. Wason Selection Task.

• Simplified student registration: Students create their own CogLab accounts, so instructors don''t have to distribute IDs and passwords.
• Between-subject designs: CogLab 2 can work with between subject designs, which allows for new kinds of experiments that allow you to compare groups as well as individuals.
• Trial-by-trial data: Downloadable as a compressed zip file, which makes for much faster downloads.
• Standard deviations: Class averages and global data also provide standard deviations across students. This allows for some types of statistical analyses.
• Quick display of student summaries: With a single button press, CogLab 2 prepares a list of experiment averages for all students.

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Tim Klitz, Washington & Jefferson College: "Since I have the co-creator of CogLab in my email box, I just wanted to tell you how very very happy I have been with the CogLab product. I’ve been using CogLab for a number of years, and it has allowed me to turn my "regular" Cognitive Psychology class into a much better class by integrating labs throughout the term. The improvements in CogLab 2.0 have also been nice as well, including the ability to look at individual, group, and national data, and some small changes in the labs that have matched the methodologies closer to the original studies. I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into creating CogLab, and I’m sure just as much work has gone into keeping servers up to speed, updating labs, etc. Thank you for creating such a fabulous product!"

Greg Francis
Greg Francis is a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University in 1993. His research investigates properties of neural networks and visual perception. He also was coauthor of the Coglab Reader, Coglab on a CD, and Social Psychology Laboratory.

Ian Neath
Ian Neath is currently a department chair at Memorial University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1991. He regularly teaches both the undergraduate and graduate courses on human memory, as well as courses on introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, and simulation modeling. He has published many articles on memory in professional journals. In addition, he co-authored another Wadsworth textbook, HUMAN MEMORY: AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH, DATA, AND THEORY, 2nd edition, Coglab on a CD, Coglab Reader, and Social Psychology Laboratory.