Cognitive Psychology : A Student's Handbook,9780863775512

Cognitive Psychology : A Student's Handbook

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780863775512
ISBN10: 0863775519
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2000-10-12
Publisher(s): Psychology Pres
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Summary

Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook has become the textbook of choice for students and lecturers in the field. This fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect new directions in cognitive psychology and to be more student friendly. Topics include: New material on cognitive neuroscience approaches, such as brain scanning and imaging studies, to illustrate the principles of brain function, New coverage of current research on consciousness, Experimental cognitive psychology, Cognitive science, with its focus on cognitive modelling, Cognitive neuropsychology, with its focus on cognition following brain damage, New introductory and concluding chapters putting research developments into context.

Table of Contents

Preface viii
Introduction
1(24)
Cognitive psychology as a science
1(3)
Cognitive science
4(8)
Cognitive neuropsychology
12(4)
Cognitive neuroscience
16(6)
Outline of this book
22(1)
Chapter summary
22(1)
Further reading
23(2)
Visual perception: Basic processes
25(28)
Introduction
25(1)
Perceptual organisation
25(5)
Depth and size perception
30(8)
Colour perception
38(5)
Brain systems
43(7)
Chapter summary
50(1)
Further reading
51(2)
Perception, movement, and action
53(30)
Introduction
53(1)
Constructivist theories
54(4)
Direct perception
58(4)
Theoretical integration
62(1)
Motion, perception, and action
63(2)
Visually guided action
65(6)
Perception of object motion
71(8)
Chapter summary
79(2)
Further reading
81(2)
Object recognition
83(36)
Introduction
83(1)
Pattern recognition
84(4)
Marr's computational theory
88(8)
Cognitive neuropsychology approach
96(3)
Cognitive science approach
99(7)
Face recognition
106(10)
Chapter summary
116(1)
Further reading
117(2)
Attention and performance limitations
119(32)
Introduction
119(2)
Focused auditory attention
121(4)
Focused visual attention
125(10)
Divided attention
135(6)
Automatic processing
141(4)
Action slips
145(4)
Chapter summary
149(1)
Further reading
150(1)
Memory: Structure and processes
151(34)
Introduction
151(1)
The structure of memory
151(5)
Working memory
156(8)
Memory processes
164(4)
Theories of forgetting
168(7)
Theories of recall and recognition
175(7)
Chapter summary
182(1)
Further reading
183(2)
Theories of long-term memory
185(30)
Introduction
185(1)
Episodic and semantic memory
185(2)
Implicit memory
187(4)
Implicit learning
191(1)
Transfer appropriate processing
192(3)
Amnesia
195(7)
Theories of amnesia
202(9)
Chapter summary
211(2)
Further reading
213(2)
Everyday memory
215(28)
Introduction
215(2)
Autobiographical memory
217(6)
Memorable memories
223(4)
Eyewitness testimony
227(6)
Superior memory ability
233(4)
Prospective memory
237(2)
Evaluation of everyday memory research
239(1)
Chapter summary
240(1)
Further reading
241(2)
Knowledge: Propositions and images
243(36)
Introduction
243(1)
What is a representation?
244(3)
What is a proposition?
247(1)
Propositions: Objects and relations
248(4)
Schemata, frames, and scripts
252(5)
What is an image? Some evidence
257(4)
Propositions versus images
261(6)
Kosslyn's computational model of imagery
267(5)
The neuropsychology of visual imagery
272(1)
Connectionist representations
273(5)
Chapter summary
278(1)
Further reading
278(1)
Objects, concepts, and categories
279(26)
Introduction
279(1)
Evidence on categories and categorisation
280(5)
The defining-attribute view
285(3)
The prototype view
288(3)
The exemplar-based view
291(2)
Explanation-based views of concepts
293(3)
Conceptual combination
296(1)
Concepts and similarity
297(4)
Evaluating theories of categorisation
301(1)
Neurological evidence on concepts
302(1)
Chapter summary
303(1)
Further reading
304(1)
Speech perception and reading
305(30)
Introduction
305(1)
Listening to speech
306(4)
Theories of word recognition
310(4)
Cognitive neuropsychology
314(3)
Basic reading processes
317(4)
Word identification
321(4)
Routes from print to sound
325(7)
Chapter summary
332(1)
Further reading
333(2)
Language comprehension
335(28)
Introduction
335(1)
Sentence processing
335(7)
Capacity theory
342(3)
Discourse processing
345(6)
Story processing
351(10)
Chapter Summary
361(1)
Further reading
362(1)
Language production
363(30)
Introduction
363(1)
Speech as communication
363(2)
Speech production processes
365(1)
Theories of speech production
366(7)
Cognitive neuropsychology: Speech production
373(2)
Cognitive neuroscience: Speech production
375(1)
Writing: Basic processes
376(5)
Cognitive neuropsychology: Writing
381(5)
Speaking and writing compared
386(1)
Language and thought
387(2)
Chapter summary
389(2)
Further reading
391(2)
Problem solving: Puzzles, insight, and expertise
393(34)
Introduction
393(2)
Early research: The Gestalt school
395(4)
Newell and Simon's problem-space theory
399(8)
Evaluating research on Puzzles
407(2)
Re-interpreting the Gestalt findings
409(3)
From puzzles to expertise
412(8)
Evaluation of expertise research
420(1)
Learning to be an expert
421(3)
Cognitive neuropsychology of thinking
424(1)
Chapter summary
425(1)
Further reading
426(1)
Creativity and discovery
427(18)
Introduction
427(1)
Genius and talent
427(1)
General approaches to creativity
428(3)
Discovery using mental models
431(3)
Discovery by analogy
434(4)
Scientific discovery by hypothesis testing
438(3)
Evaluating problem-solving research
441(2)
Chapter summary
443(1)
Further reading
444(1)
Reasoning and deduction
445(30)
Introduction
445(2)
Theoretical approaches to reasoning
447(2)
How people reason with conditionals
449(8)
Abstract-rule theory
457(3)
Mental models theory
460(5)
Domain-specific rule theories
465(2)
Probabilistic theory
467(2)
Cognitive neuropsychology of reasoning
469(1)
Rationality and evaluation of theories
470(2)
Chapter summary
472(1)
Further reading
472(3)
Judgement and decision making
475(14)
Introduction
475(1)
Judgement research
476(7)
Decision making
483(3)
How flawed are judgement and decision making?
486(1)
Chapter summary
487(1)
Further reading
488(1)
Cognition and emotion
489(24)
Introduction
489(1)
Does affect require cognition?
489(5)
Theories of emotional processing
494(5)
Emotion and memory
499(6)
Emotion, attention, and perception
505(4)
Conclusions on emotional processing
509(2)
Chapter summary
511(1)
Further reading
512(1)
Present and future
513(14)
Introduction
513(1)
Experimental cognitive psychology
513(3)
Cognitive neuropsychology
516(2)
Cognitive science
518(3)
Cognitive neuroscience
521(2)
Present and future directions
523(1)
Chapter summary
524(1)
Further reading
525(2)
Glossary 527(12)
References 539(70)
Author index 609(15)
Subject index 624

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