Cognitive Psychology : Applying the Science of the Mind

by Robinson-Riegler, Greg L.; Robinson-Riegler, Bridget

• ISBN13: 9780205531394
• ISBN10: 0205531393
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

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

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

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

Basics of Perception and Awareness

Basic Issues in Perception

Sensation andPerception

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

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

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

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

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