Approaches to cognition : contrasts and controversies / edited by Terry J. Knapp, Lynn C. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knapp, Terry J., editor.

Robertson, Lynn C., editor.

Series:

Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 332 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

One of the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental distinctions between and concordances among different orientations concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and operant psychology.

Contents:

1. Cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind / Daniel N. Robinson

2. The emergence of cognitive psychology in the latter half of the twentieth century / Terry J. Knapp

3. The information processing approach to cognition / Stephen E. Palmer and Ruth Kimchi

4. Why I am not a cognitive psychologist / B.F. Skinner

5. Bringing cognition and creativity into the behavioral laboratory / Robert Epstein

6. Understanding animal cognition / Donald A. Riley, Michael F. Brown, and Sonja I. Yoerg

7. J.J. Gibson's ecological theory of information pickup : cognition from the ground up / William M. Mace

8. From Gestalt to neo-Gestalt / Lynn C. Robertson

9. Cognitive intervention in perceptual processing / Irvin Rock

10. Toward a computational neuropsychology of high-level vision / Stephen Michael Kosslyn

11. Cognitive neuropsychology / Dean C. Delis and Beth A. Ober

12. Putting cognitive psychology to work : examples from computer system design / Louis M. Gomez and Susant T. Dumais

13. A coordination of differences : behaviorism, mentalism and the foundations of psychology / Roger Schnaitter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-63081-8

1-317-24815-5

1-317-24816-3

9781315630816

OCLC:

954046516