Cognitive psychology: a student's handbook/ Michael W. Eysenck
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TextPublication details: Hove, Eng: Psychology Press, 2010Edition: 6th edDescription: vii, 752 pISBN: 9781841695402 (pbk.)Subject(s): Cognitive psychologyDDC classification: 153 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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'• Approaches to human cognition
Introduction
h-'<perimental cognitive psychology
Cognitive neuroscience: the brain
in action
Cognitive neuropsychology
Computational cognitive science
Comparison of major approaches
Cutline of this book
Chapter summary
Further reading
Basic processes in visual
Perception
Introduction
orain systems
visual systems: perception and
notion
Colour vision
^^•"ception without awareness
^Pth and size perception
npter summary
^nrther reading
3. Object and face recognition
Introduction
Perceptual organisation
Theories of object recognition
Cognitive neuroscience approach
to object recognition
Cognitive neuropsychology of object
recognition
Face recognition
Visual imagery
Chapter summary
Further reading
4. Perception, motion,
and action
Introduction
Direct perception
Visually guided action
Planning-control model
Perception of human motion
Change blindness
Chapter summary
Further reading
5. Attention and performance
Introduction
Focused auditory attention
Focused visual attention
Disorders of visual attention
Visual search
Cross-modal effects
Divided attention: dual-task
performance
Automatic processing
Chapter summary
Further reading
6. Learning, memory, and
forgetting
Introduction
Architecture of memory-
Working memory-
Levels of processing
Implicit learning
Theories of forgetting
Chapter summary-
Further reading
7. Long-term memory systems
Introductitjn
Fpisodic vs. semantic memory
Flpisodic memory
Semantic memory
Non-declarative memory
Beyond declarative and non-declarative
memory: amnesia
Long-term memory and the brain
Chapter summary
Further reading
8. Everyday memory
Introduction
Autobiographical memory
Eyewitness testimony
Prospective memory
Chapter summary
Further reading
Is language innate.-'
Whorfian hypothesis
Language chapters
9. Reading and speech perception
Introduction
Reading: introduction
\X ord recognition
Reading aloud
Reading: eye-movement research
Listening to speech
Theories of spoken word recognition
C.ognitive neuropsychologv
(.hapter summary-
Further reading
10. La nguage comprehension
Introduction
Parsing
Theories of parsing
Pragmatics
Individual differences: working
memory capacity-
Discourse processing
Story processing
C,hapter summary
Further reading
I I . Language production
Introduction
Speech as communication
Planning of speech
Basic aspects of spoken language
Speech errors
Theories of speech production
Cognitive neuropsychology: speech
production
Writing: the main processes
Spelling
Chapter summary
Further reading
12. Problem solving and
expertise
Introduction
Problem solving
Transfer of training and analogical
reasoning
Expertise
Deliberate practice
Chapter summary
Further reading
13. Judgement and decision
making
Introduction
Judgement research
Decision making
Basic decision making
Comple.x decision making
Chapter summary
Further reading
14. Inductive and deductive
reasoning
Introduction
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Theories of deductive reasoning
Brain systems in thinking and
reasoning
Informal reasoning
Are humans rational.'
Chapter summary
Further readina
Cognition and emotion
Consciousness
15. Cognition and emotion
Introduction
Appraisal theories
Emotion regulation
Multi-level theories
Mood and cognition
An.xiety, depression, and cognitive
biases
Chapter summaryFurther
reading
16. Consciousness
Introduction
Measuring conscious experience
Brain areas associated with
consciousness
Theories of consciousness
Is consciousness unitary.'
Chapter summary
Further reading
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