Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research

Download or read book Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research written by Amy Wenzel and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Since clinical psychologists often have little background in cognitive psychology, and cognitive psychologists often have little training in conducting research with special populations, this book discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks. For each, the contributors provide the background necessary for readers to ground themselves in the basics and be directed to more detailed information that they might need. The result is a text that will assist researchers from different backgrounds in finding important task-related data. An up-to-date resource on conducting rigorous research.