Preface | p. viii |
The Foundations of Cognitive Psychology | p. 1 |
The Science of the Mind | p. 3 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 4 |
The Scope of Cognitive Psychology | p. 4 |
A Brief History | p. 7 |
Research in Cognitive Psychology: An Example | p. 14 |
Chapter Summary | p. 22 |
The Neural Basis for Cognition | p. 23 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 24 |
Capgras Syndrome: An Initial Example | p. 24 |
The Principal Structures of the Brain | p. 28 |
The Visual System | p. 41 |
Chapter Summary | p. 57 |
Learning About the World Around Us | p. 59 |
Recognizing Objects in the World | p. 61 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 62 |
Visual Perception | p. 62 |
Object Recognition | p. 70 |
Word Recognition | p. 73 |
Feature Nets and Word Recognition | p. 77 |
Descendants of the Feature Net | p. 87 |
Different Objects, Different Recognition Systems? | p. 93 |
Top-Down Influences on Object Recognition | p. 97 |
Chapter Summary | p. 100 |
Paying Attention | p. 102 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 103 |
Selective Listening | p. 103 |
Perceiving and the Limits on Cognitive Capacity | p. 106 |
Divided Attention | p. 125 |
Practice | p. 131 |
Chapter Summary | p. 136 |
Memory | p. 139 |
The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System | p. 141 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 142 |
The Route Into Memory | p. 143 |
A Closer Look at Working Memory | p. 149 |
Entering Long-Term Storage: The Role of the Intent to Learn | p. 158 |
The Role of Meaning and Memory Connections | p. 164 |
Organizing and Memorizing | p. 167 |
The Study of Memory Acquisition | p. 174 |
Chapter Summary | p. 176 |
Interconnections Between Acquisition and Retrieval | p. 178 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 179 |
Retrieval Hints and Cues | p. 179 |
Encoding Specificity | p. 185 |
Different Forms of Memory Testing | p. 187 |
Implicit Memory | p. 190 |
Theoretical Treatments of Implicit Memory | p. 197 |
Amnesia | p. 204 |
Chapter Summary | p. 211 |
Remembering Complex Events | p. 213 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 214 |
Memory Errors, Memory Gaps | p. 214 |
Memory Errors: Some Initial Examples | p. 215 |
Memory Errors: A Hypothesis | p. 217 |
Evaluating Human Memory | p. 228 |
Autobiographical Memory | p. 235 |
Chapter Summary | p. 245 |
Knowledge | p. 249 |
Associative Theories of Long-Term Memory | p. 251 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 252 |
The Network Notion | p. 252 |
Evidence Favoring the Network Approach | p. 255 |
More Direct Tests of the Network Claims | p. 257 |
Retrieving Information From a Network | p. 266 |
Unpacking the Nodes | p. 269 |
Evaluating Network Models | p. 274 |
The Newest Chapter: Connectionism | p. 280 |
Chapter Summary | p. 286 |
Concepts and Generic Knowledge | p. 288 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 289 |
Definitions: What Do We Know When We Know What a Dog Is? | p. 289 |
Prototypes and Typicality Effects | p. 291 |
Exemplars | p. 297 |
The Difficulties With Categorizing via Resemblance | p. 304 |
Concepts as Theories | p. 312 |
Chapter Summary | p. 321 |
Language | p. 323 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 324 |
Phonology | p. 324 |
Words and the Nature of Linguistic Rules | p. 334 |
Syntax | p. 340 |
Sentence Parising | p. 348 |
The Biology of Language | p. 355 |
Chapter Summary | p. 361 |
Visual Knowledge | p. 364 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 365 |
Visual Imagery | p. 365 |
Long-Term Visual Memory | p. 389 |
The Diversity of Knowledge | p. 397 |
Chapter Summary | p. 398 |
Thinking | p. 401 |
Judgment: Drawing Conclusions From Evidence | p. 403 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 404 |
Availability | p. 405 |
Anchoring | p. 412 |
Detecting Covariation | p. 413 |
Base Rates | p. 421 |
Assessing the Damage | p. 424 |
Chapter Summary | p. 434 |
Reasoning: Thinking Through the Implications of What You Know | p. 436 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 437 |
Confirmation and Disconfirmation | p. 437 |
Logic | p. 441 |
Mental Models | p. 453 |
Decision-Making | p. 455 |
Chapter Summary | p. 471 |
Solving Problems | p. 473 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 474 |
General Problem-Solving Methods | p. 474 |
Relying on Past Knowledge | p. 483 |
Defining the Problem | p. 494 |
Creativity | p. 499 |
Chapter Summary | p. 508 |
Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought | p. 510 |
Preview of Chapter Themes | p. 511 |
The Cognitive Unconscious | p. 511 |
The Disadvantages of Unconscious Processing | p. 519 |
The Function of Consciousness | p. 522 |
Consciousness: What Is Left Unsaid | p. 527 |
Chapter Summary | p. 528 |
Glossary | p. 1 |
References | p. 19 |
Credits | p. 65 |
Index | p. 67 |
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