Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 6th EditionPsychology Press, 11. sep. 2013 - 760 sider Previous editions have established this best-selling student handbook as THE cognitive psychology textbook of choice, both for its academic rigour and its accessibility. This sixth edition continues this tradition. It has been substantially updated and revised to reflect new developments in the field (especially within cognitive neuroscience). Traditional approaches are combined with the cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience approach to create a comprehensive, coherent and totally up-to-date overview of all the main fields in cognitive psychology. The major topics covered include perception, attention, memory, concepts, language, problem solving, and reasoning, as well as some applied topics such as everyday memory. New to this edition:
The textbook is packed full of useful features that will engage students and aid revision, including key terms, which are new to this edition, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading. Written by one of the leading textbook authors in psychology, this thorough and user-friendly textbook will continue to be essential reading for all undergraduate students of psychology. Those taking courses in computer science, education, linguistics, physiology, and medicine will also find it an invaluable resource. This edition is accompanied by a rich array of supplementary materials, which will be made available to qualifying adopters completely free of charge. The online multimedia materials include:
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Preface | |
Introduction | |
Computational cognitive science | |
Depth and size perception | |
Perceptual organisation | |
Theories ofobject recognition | |
Cognitive neuroscience approachto object recognition | |
Perception motion and action | |
Planning of speech | |
Theories of speech production | |
speech production | |
Chapter summary Further reading | |
Problemsolving andexpertise Introduction Problem solving | |
Expertise | |
Deliberatepractice | |
Chapter summary Further reading 5 Attention and performance | |
Direct perception Visually guided action | |
Perception ofhuman motion | |
dualtask performance | |
Automatic processing | |
Chapter summary Further reading | |
Autobiographical memory | |
Architectureof memory | |
Theories offorgetting Chapter summary Further reading | |
Introduction Episodic vs semantic memory | |
Nondeclarative memory | |
Chapter summary | |
LANGUAGE Is languageinnate? Whorfian hypothesis | |
eyemovement research Listening tospeech | |
Cognitive neuropsychology | |
Pragmatics | |
working memory capacity | |
Story processing Chapter summary | |
Judgement anddecision making | |
Basic decision making | |
Chapter summary | |
Inductive anddeductive reasoning | |
Brain systems inthinking and reasoning Informal reasoning | |
BROADENING HORIZONS | |
Appraisal theories | |
Chapter summary | |
Consciousness | |
Introduction | |
Parsing | |
References | |
Author index | |
Focused auditory attention | |
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