Imagine my horror on realizing we were going to be studying a post-graduate textbook published 12 years ago!

Turns out I need not have worried: it is very well organized and a good didactic work. Complicated topics are clearly and carefully explained and reexplained. The extra chapter in the Spanish edition means you start zoomed out, getting a nice overview of the topic, before zooming in on each individual topic in later chapters, making it much easier to understand than most UNED textbooks, which just throw you in the deep end.

There is further repetition in the footnotes and the annexes at the end of the book, meaning most concepts are explained in at least two different ways, if not more, and you can not help but revise complicated topics as you go along. It really is very good.

How fast can you react to a red light flashing on a screen? What about of it is preceded by a sound? It's not the type of book anyone would ever read unless they had to. It would have been wonderful to get more practical real life applications. More about ADHD (which is mentioned only once) and other personal accounts of problems related to these functions. Even if they were just bubbles in the margins not meant to be put on any syllabus. In any case, I gave up thinking studying psychology had anything to do with studying anything subjective quite a while ago. ( )