Cognition SEVENTH EDITION认知学第七版.pdf

Cognition SEVENTH EDITION MARGARET W. MATLIN SUNY Geneseo John Wiley Sons, Inc. Vice President and Publisher Jay O’Callaghan Executive Editor Christopher Johnson Assistant Editor Eileen McKeever Senior Production Editor Valerie A. Vargas Marketing Manager Danielle Torio Creative Director Harry Nolan Senior Designer Madelyn Lesure Production Management Services Pine Tree/Laserwords Senior Media Editor Lynn Pearlman Cover Photo Lawrence Lawry/Getty Images This book was set in Janson by Laserwords Inc. and printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley, Crawfordsville. The cover was printed by Phoenix Color Corp. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website . Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201)748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, website /go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN: 978-0470-08764-0 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to Helen and Donald White and Clare and Harry Matlin Preface I started to write this preface in May, 2008, just after I had finished grading the final exams of the students in my Cognitive Psychology class. I then began thinking how much