Cognitive Psychology and Its ImplicationsMacmillan Higher Education, 2020 M01 23 - 560 pages Cognitive Psychology 9th edition takes students to the forefront of the field and introduces them to key discoveries of cognitive psychology. With accessible and clear explanations, Anderson shows students how mental processes are investigated and how we know what we know about the mind. Cognitive Psychology 9e introduces students to both the cutting edge findings of cognitive neuroscience and classic behavioral studies. Experimental data, sample stimuli, brain images, and research tasks woven throughout the text give students a real understanding of how research is conducted and the excitement of discovery. Fascinating examples and applications of cognitive theory further keep students engaged. |
Contents
Chapter 6 | |
A Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution? | |
Visual Pattern Recognition | |
Speech Recognition | |
Categorical Perception | |
Chapter 9 | |
Expertise | |
General Characteristics of Skill Acquisition | |
Expertise | |
Transfer of Skill | |
Theory of Identical Elements | |
Conclusions | |
Chapter 10 | |
Context and Pattern Recognition | |
Conclusions | |
The Science of Cognition | |
Attention and Performance | |
Auditory Attention | |
Visual Attention | |
Selecting Lines of Thought to Pursue | |
Conclusions | |
Verbal Imagery Versus Visual Imagery | |
Visual Imagery | |
Visual Perception and Visual Imagery | |
Propositional Representations | |
Embodied Cognition | |
Conclusions | |
Encoding and Storage | |
Memory and the Brain | |
ShortTerm Memory and Working Memory | |
Activation and LongTerm Memory | |
Practice and Memory Strength | |
Conclusions | |
Chapter 7 | |
Chapter 8 | |
How Interference Affects Memory | |
Retrieval and Inference | |
Associative Structure and Retrieval | |
The Hippocampal Formation and Amnesia | |
The Many Varieties of Memory in the Brain | |
The Nature of Problem Solving | |
Operator Selection | |
Problem Representation | |
Set Effects | |
Conclusions | |
Reasoning | |
Reasoning about Quantifiers | |
Inductive Reasoning and Hypothesis Testing | |
DualProcess Theories | |
Chapter 11 | |
Decision Making | |
Probabilistic Judgment | |
Making Decisions Under Uncertainty | |
Conclusions | |
Chapter 12 | |
Language and the Brain | |
Syntactic Formalisms | |
Is Human Language Special? | |
Perception | |
Language Acquisition | |
The Uniqueness of Language A Summary | |
Chapter 13 | |
1 Intelligent Chatterboxes | |
Parsing | |
Utilization | |
Levels of Representation and Situation | |
Chapter 14 | |
Individual Differences in Cognition | |
Cognition and Aging | |
Different Dimensions of Intelligence | |
Conclusions | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Name Index | |
Subject Index | |
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