Cognition and Reality: Ulric Neisser, W. H. Freeman, 1976
Cognition and Reality: Principles and Implications of Cognitive Psychology, Ulric Neisser, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976 ISBN is 9780716704775, Softcover, 8.25×5.5×1″, 230pp

VERY GOOD+ appears as Like New but for minimal cover wear (see photos)… clean pages but was surprised when I leafed through to find 2 pages with 2 lines underlined (p104-105), ghost of an erased penciled price on opening page (no other markings noticed), and blackened price on rear cover, tight binding, no crease in spine.

“Cognition and Reality: Principles and Implications of Cognitive Psychology” is a groundbreaking work by Ulric Neisser, published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1976. As a pioneer in cognitive psychology, Neisser’s book represents a revolutionary attempt to bridge the gap between abstract theoretical concepts and tangible human experience.

The central premise of the book is that cognition is not merely about passive reception of stimuli but rather an active process of interpreting and making sense of reality. Neisser argues that our understanding of the world is fundamentally shaped by our cognitive processes, introducing the notion of ‘perceptual cycle’ where perceptions, expectations, and interpretations interact and evolve continuously.

It Surveys contemporary theories of perception, criticizing mechanistic information-processing models and stressing differences between perception in the external world and in experimental laboratory situations