Cognitive psychology / edited by Nick Braisby and Angus Gellatly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braisby, Nick.

Gellatly, Angus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (745 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cognitive processes enable us to experience the world around us: to recognise a friendly face in a crowd, to communicate our passions, to recall memories from the past. When these processes stop working, it can turn friends into strangers, render speech impossible, and make history a confusion of truth and lies. Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition unravels these complex ideas, introducing the concepts behind them and looking at how techniques, such as neuroimaging, canprovide answers to questions that may at first seem unanswerable. The chapters - covering a broad range of topics, including a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of contributors; 1 FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 1 Introduction; 2 What is cognitive psychology?; 3 A brief history of cognitive psychology; 3.1 Introspectionism; 3.2 Gestalt psychology; 3.3 Behaviourism; 3.4 The return of the cognitive; 4 Science, models, and the mind; 5 The cognitive approach; 5.1 Representation; 5.2 Computation; 6 Level-dependent explanations; 6.1 The computational level; 6.2 The algorithmic level; 6.3 The implementational level; 6.4 Using Marr's levels; 7 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 1 PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES; INTRODUCTION

2 ATTENTION1 Auditory attention; 2 Visual attention; 3 Integrating information in clearly-seen displays; 4 Attention and distraction; 5 The neurology of attention; 6 Drawing it all together; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 3 PERCEPTION; 1 Introduction; 2 The Gestalt approach to perception; 3 Gibson's theory of perception; 4 Marr's theory of perception; 5 Constructivist approaches to perception; 6 The physiology of the human visual system; 7 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 4 RECOGNITION; 1 Introduction; 2 Different types of recognition; 3 Recognizing three-dimensional objects

4 Face recognition5 Modelling face recognition; 6 Neuropsychological evidence; 7 Are faces 'special'?; 8 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 2 CONCEPTS AND LANGUAGE; INTRODUCTION; 5 CONCEPTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Explaining categorization; 3 Where next?; 4 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 6 LANGUAGE PROCESSING; 1 Introduction; 2 Word recognition; 3 The mental lexicon; 4 Sentence comprehension; 5 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 7 LANGUAGE IN ACTION; 1 Introduction; 2 Written language and discourse; 3 Language production and dialogue; 4 Conclusions; FURTHER READING

REFERENCESPART 3 MEMORY; INTRODUCTION; 8 LONG-TERM MEMORY: Encoding to retrieval; 1 Introduction; 2 Encoding; 3 Memory stores and systems; 4 Retrieval; 5 Implicit memory; 6 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 9 WORKING MEMORY; 1 Introduction; 2 The structure of working memory; 3 Vocabulary acquisition; 4 Modelling the phonological loop; 5 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 4 THINKING; INTRODUCTION; 10 PROBLEM SOLVING; 1 Introduction; 2 'Simple' problem solving; 3 Analogical problem solving; 4 'Complex' problem solving; 5 Prospects for problem-solving research; 6 Conclusions

FURTHER READINGREFERENCES; 11 JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING; 1 Introduction; 2 Normative theory of choice under risk; 3 Findings from behavioural decision research; 4 Prospect theory; 5 Judgement under uncertainty; 6 Fast and frugal theories of decision making; 7 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 12 REASONING; 1 Introduction; 2 Deductive reasoning and logic; 3 Psychological theories of reasoning; 4 Conditional inference; 5 Wason's selection task; 6 Discussion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 5 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; INTRODUCTION; 13 COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

1 Introduction: the lesion method and cognitive neuropsychology

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-166617-3

OCLC:

867929695