Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Its Applications

by Healy, Alice F.

• ISBN13: 9781591471837
• ISBN10: 1591471834
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

The study of cognition has experienced rapid growth in the last decade. This topic is fundamental both to the science of psychology and to its applications to real-world problems. Yet there has traditionally been a huge gap between basic research and practice in this area. Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Its Applications aims to bridge this gap by bringing together a group of distinguished experimental psychologists who show how their findings can be applied in daily life.
This book will appeal to experimental psychologists; practitioners involved in training education, and testing; and students and researchers interested in the care issues of human cognition.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
About the Honorees	p. xv
Symposia	p. 1
Domain-Specific Knowledge in Intellectual Skills: A Symposium in Honor of Lyle E. Bourne, Jr.	p. 3
Walter Kintsch: A Psychology Beyond Words	p. 17
Cherchez Le Quadrant Pasteur! A Symposium in Honor of Tom Landauer	p. 31
Learning	p. 45
How Should a Theory of Learning and Cognition Inform Instruction?	p. 47
The Procedural Reinstatement Principle: Studies on Training, Retention, and Transfer	p. 59
Material Appropriate Difficulty: A Framework for Determining When Difficulty Is Desirable for Improving Learning	p. 73
Memory	p. 87
The Long-Term Neglect of Long-Term Memory: Reasons and Remedies	p. 89
Rich False Memories: The Royal Road to Success	p. 101
The Functionalist Agenda in Memory Research	p. 115
Information Processing	p. 127
Attention, Automaticity, and Executive Control	p. 129
Roles of Task-Defined Associations and Reference Frames in Spatial Stimulus-Response Compatibility	p. 141
Discourse	p. 155
Watching the Brain Comprehend Discourse	p. 157
Learning to Construct and Integrate	p. 169
Computerized Learning Environments That Incorporate Research in Discourse Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computational Linguistics	p. 183
Knowledge Representation	p. 195
On Quantifying and Characterizing Human Knowledge	p. 197
Finding Meaning in Psychology	p. 211
Cultural Explorations of the Nature of Intelligence	p. 225
Word Association Spaces for Predicting Semantic Similarity Effects in Episodic Memory	p. 237
Author Index	p. 251
Subject Index	p. 259
About the Editor	p. 265
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