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Cognitive Psychology - Greg L. Robinson-Riegler, Bridget Robinson-Riegler

Cognitive Psychology

Applying The Science Of The Mind: United States Edition
Buch | Hardcover
608 Seiten
2007 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-53139-4 (ISBN)
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This book brings cognition to life by demonstrating the endless application of cognitive psychology to everyday life. While introducing the current research in this rapidly changing field, the text also introduces critical thinking exercises that highlight important phenomena and provide an engaging firsthand view of the everyday relevance of research in cognition. The book has three main threads that serve as unifying themes for current research in the field: Cognition and Neuroscience; Cognition and Consciousness; and Cognition and Individual Differences. A “story” introduces the book and is continually referred to throughout in installments, highlighting the application of the information and providing a useful organizing tool.

Table of Contents:

 

Chapter 1--An Introduction to Cognition

What is Cognition?

      The Omnipresence of Cognitive Processing

      An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Psychology B.C. (Before Cognitive psychology)

      Psychophysics

      Structuralism: The Contents of Mental Experience

      Functionalism: The Functions of Mental Experience

      Behaviorism: The Rejection of Mental Experience

      Laying the Foundation for Cognitive Psychology

The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology

      S-R Explanations: Seriously wRong?

      Technological Influences

PSYCHOLOGY A.D. (After Decline of behaviorism)

Behaviorism Reconsidered

Information-Processing: A Computer Metaphor for Cognition

      Connectionism: A Brain Metaphor for Cognition

      Alternative Approaches to Cognitive Psychology

Research Themes

 

Chapter 2--Research Methods in Cognition

Descriptive Research

      Naturalistic Observation

      Case Studies

      Self-Report

Experimental Research

      The Importance of the Computer

      What Happens in an Experiment?

      The Advantages and Disadvantages of an Experiment

The Cognitive psychology Experiment

      How Can We See Thinking?: The Dependent Variable

      What Variables Influence Cognition?: The Independent Variable

      Confounding Variables

      Assigning Participants to Conditions

The Factorial Design

      Analyzing and Presenting Results

      A Sample Experiment

Cognitive Neuroscience: Investigating Mind and Brain

      An Overview of The Nervous System

      The Tools of Cognitive Neuroscience

 

Chapter 3—Basics of Perception and Awareness

Basic Issues in Perception

      Sensation and. Perception

      Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing

The Basic Tasks of Visual Perception

      Perceptual Organizational Processes

Multisensory Interaction and Integration

Synesthesia

Comparing the Senses

Perception and Action

Consciousness

Varieties of Consciousness

Subliminal Perception

Perceptual Processing and Attention

Visual Attention

Auditory Attention

 

Chapter 4 – Attending to and Manipulating Information

Selection and Division: The Strategic Nature of Attention

      Control of Selective Attention

      Dividing Attention

Automaticity

      Characteristics of Automatic Processes

      Accounts of Automaticity

      Costs of Automaticity

Processing in Immediate Memory

      The Information Processing Approach to Memory

      Short-Term Memory

A Modular Approach to STM: Working Memory

      The Articulatory Loop

      The Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

      The Episodic Buffer

      Central Executive

      Working Memory and the Brain

       The Working Memory Model Re-Considered

 

Chapter 5 – Identification and Classification

Identification and Classifictation: An Overview

        Identifcation: Recognizing from the Bottom, Up and from the Top, Down

        Concepts and Categories: The Database for Recognition

Object Recognition

        Effects of Orientation and Perspective

        Effects of Context

        Theories of Visual Object Recognition

        Non-Visual Recognition

Recognizing Faces

        Face Inversion

        Configural Processing

        So, Is Face Recognition Special?

        Self-Recognition

Concepts and Categories

        Types of Categories (“Categories” as a Category)

        Functions of Concepts

        Approaches to Concept Representation

 

Chapter 6 – Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Long-Term Memory

Fundamental Issues and Distinctions

Short-Term Memory vs.Long-Term Memory

Types of Long-Term Memory

A Descriptive Framework: Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval

Encoding Processes in Explicit Long-term Remembering

Attention and Repetition

Rehearsal

Remembering Actions

Retrieval Processes in Long–Term Memory

Availability and Accessibility

Encoding Specificity

Retrieval: An Effective Encoding Strategy?

Encoding, Retrieval, and Hemispheric Asymmetry

Memory and Consciousness

        Remembering and Knowing

Implicit Memory

 

Chapter 7 – Memory Distortions

Sins of Memory

Eyewitness Memory

      Encoding and Storage Factors

      Retrieval Factors

      Witness Factors

      An Applied Triumph

Illusory Memories

      Simple Events

      Complex events

      A Constructive Memory Framework

      Social Influences and Constructive Remembering

The Recovered Memory Controversy

      Can We Completely Forget and Recover Traumatic Events?

      Can False Memories for Traumatic Events be Created?

      What Constitutes Valid Evidence?

      The APA Working Group

 

Chapter 8  —- Remembering the Past

Everyday Memory

Neisser’s Challenge: Ecological Validity and Memory Research

Autobiographical Memory: Basic Issues and Methodology

        Memories versus Facts

Methods of Investigation

The Autobiographical Memory Retention Function

        Childhood Amnesia

The Reminiscence Bump

Forgetting

Factors Affecting Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories

Encoding Specificity in Autobiographical Memory

Retrieval Cues for Autobiographical Memory

The Self-Memory System

Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

Emotion and Autobiographical Memory

Flashbulb Memories

Effects of Mood on Remembered Events

Conclusion: Functions of Autobiographical Memory

        Communicative Function

        Emotional Function

        Directive Function

 

Chapter 9 – Knowledge Representation and Retrieval

Representing and Retrieving Words and Associates

        Word Representation and Retrieval: The Mental Lexicon

        Models of Word Recognition

        Words Connecting with Words: Semantic Networks

Representing and Retrieving Everyday Knowledge

        Knowledge Learned Through Formal Instruction

        People’s Names

        Songs

Analog Representation

        The Study of Visual Imagery

        The Imagery Debate

 

Chapter 10 –Language

Language: Basic Principles

      Words and Rules

      Design Features of Language

      Is Language Modular? 

      Levels of Analysis

Speech and Spoken Word Recognition

      Phonology

      Morphology

Reading and Visual Word Recognition

      Eye Movements

      Visual Word Recognition

From Words to Sentences: Syntax and Semantics

      Transformational Grammar

      Sentence Parsing

      Language: Learned or Innate?

Language Production

      Stages in Language Production

Language in Non-Humans

      Language Training Projects

      What Makes Language Special?

 

Chapter 11 – Problem Solving

What is a Problem?

Well-defined and Ill-defined Problems

Routine and Non-routine Problems

Problem-Solving Research: Some Methodological Challenges

Approaches to the Study of Problem Solving

Behaviorism: Problem Solving as Associative Learning

Gestalt Psychology: Problem Solving as Insight

Cognitive Psychology: Problem Solving as Information Processing

Problem Representation

Rigidity in Representation

        Stereotypes as a Threat to Problem Representation

Problem Solution

Algorithms

Heuristics

Experts: Masters of Representation and Solution

Expert Advantages

Expert Disadvantages: Costs of Expertise          

Insight and Creativity

Insight

Creativity

Creativity, Insight, and the Brain

 

Chapter 12 – Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making

Complex Thinking: Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making

The Focus on Errors

Reasoning

Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning

Judgment

Basing Judgments on Memory: The Availability Heuristic

Basing Judgments on Similarity: The Representativeness Heuristic

Basing Judgments on Initial Estimates: The Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic

Biased Evaluation of Our Judgments

Decision-Making

        Expected Utility: A Normative Approach

        Prospect Theory: A Descriptive Approach

 

 

References

Name Index

Subject Index

 

 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.8.2007
Sprache englisch
Maße 234 x 196 mm
Gewicht 1078 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-205-53139-3 / 0205531393
ISBN-13 978-0-205-53139-4 / 9780205531394
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