Ronald T. Kellogg

Broschiertes Buch

Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology

Beschreibung

Main description:
By focusing on the fundamentals, highlighting the contributions of neuroscience, and underscoring the practical side of the field, the author provides students with an affordable text that is contemporary and accessible.

Key features include:

- A focus on the `essentials' avoids bogging down students in tangential or esoteric asides or in topics more suitable for discussion in advanced follow up courses.

- Integrated coverage of neuroscience highlights how understanding of all aspects of cognitive psychology is rapidly being enhanced by better understanding of biological substrates. This is further supported by use of a four-colour insert on brain imaging technology.

- Applications are integrated, not boxed, to draw in students with interesting and practical implications of cognitive research in areas such as reliability of eyewitness memory, creativity, or improving learning and decision making skills.

- Margin notes highlight and summarize key concepts, thus helping students in previewing and reviewing each chapter.

- Key terms are highlighted with boldface and defined in context when first introduced, listed at the end of each chapter, and collected in a glossary at the end of the book to assist students in mastering the vocabulary of the field.

- Chapter-concluding summaries help students effectively integrate the material.

- Students are guided to web sites, including ones that provide opportunities for hands-on mini-experiments for interactive learning.

- An Intructor's Resource CD provides materials for PowerPoint presentations, suggestions for further reading and web resources, and test questions.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction
Scope of Cognitive Psychology
Core Concepts
The Brain
Research Methods
Overview of the Text
Summary
Key Terms
2. Perception
Visual Consciousness
Pattern Recognition
Modularity
Summary
Key Terms
3. Attention
Filter Theories
Capacity Theories
Automatic Processes
Visual Attention
Summary
Key Terms
4. Memory Systems
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Versus Long-Term Memory
Working Memory
Summary
Key Terms
5. Remembering Events
Types of Long-Term Memory
Encoding and Storing Events
Retrieval Processes
Summary
Key Terms
6. Memory Distortions
Reconstructive Retrieval
Encoding Distortions
Source Monitoring
Eyewitness Testimony
Summary
Key Terms
7. Knowledge Representation
Representing Concepts
Propositions and Images
Using Semantic Memory
Summary
Key Terms
8. Language
Defining Language
Representations of Language
Comprehension of Language
Summary
Key Terms
9. Problem Solving
Types of Thinking
A General Model of Problem Solving
Creativity
Summary
Key Terms
10. Reasoning and Decision Making
Syllogistic Reasoning
Conditional Reasoning
Decision Making
Summary
Key Terms

Autor

Ronald T. Kellogg is Professor of Cognition and Neuroscience and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University.He previously chaired the psychology department at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Hereceived his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from theUniversity of Colorado and alsoattended Stanford University as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. His past research has examined attention, long-term memory, concept learning, and cognitive processes in writing. His current work concerns the role of working memory in thought and text production and the effects of writing on memory retrieval. His teaching interests include cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, language and memory, and the psychology of writing.He is the author of The Psychology of Writing (Oxford University Press, 1994) and the SAGE book Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paul Chapman Publishing
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781412936927
• ISBN-10: 1412936926
• Artikelnr.: 22571957