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Cognitive Psychology Key Readings

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ISBN-10: 1841690651

ISBN-13: 9781841690650

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Balota, Elizabeth Marsh

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Cognitive psychology is an enormous field with a rich history. One problem confronting instructors in cognitive psychology courses is covering such diverse topics as pattern recognition, attention, memory, language, decision-making, and problem solving. It is virtually impossible to both cover these topics and provide details regarding the beauty of the experimental studies that have tackled important topics in a single textbook.Cognitive Psychology: Key Readingshelps fill this void and provides students with the opportunity to learn about the details of the actual articles and chapters that have had major influences in the development of this discipline. The classic papers were selected…    
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Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 786
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.25" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

About the Editors
Acknowledgments
Cognitive Psychology: An Overview
Methods of Cognitive Psychology
The Philosophy and the Approach
Memory-Scanning: Mental Processes Revealed by Reaction-Time Experiments
The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
Calling a Squirrel a Squirrel but a Canoe a Wigwam: A Category-Specific Deficit for Artefactual Objects and Body Parts
Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Cortical Anatomy of Single-Word Processing
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition
Selective Adaptation of Linguistic Feature Detectors
Failure to Detect Changes to People During a Real-World Interaction
Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex
Attention
Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears
Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions
Attention and Cognitive Control
Selection for Action: The Role of Inhibitory Mechanisms
Imagery
Visual Images Preserve Metric Spatial Information: Evidence from Studies of Image Scanning
Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects
Reinterpreting Visual Patterns in Mental Imagery
The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery
Memory
Depth of Processing and the Retention of Words in Episodic Memory
Semantic Integration of Verbal Information into a Visual Memory
Becoming Famous without Being Recognized: Unconscious Influences of Memory Produced by Dividing Attention
Creating False Memories: Remembering Words Not Presented in Lists
Working Memory
How Many Memory Systems Are There?
On the Transition from Childhood Amnesia to the Recall of Personal Memories
Using and Accessing Pre-Existing Knowledge Structures
Retrieval Time from Semantic Memory
Depth of Automatic Spreading Activation: Mediated Priming Effects in Pronunciation but not in Lexical Decision
The "Tip of the Tongue" Phenomenon
Contextual Prerequisites for Understanding: Some Investigations of Comprehension and Recall
Categorization
Basic Objects in Natural Categories
On the Genesis of Abstract Ideas
Concepts and Conceptual Structure
Language Development
The Development of Language in Genie: A Case of Language Acquisition beyond the "Critical Period"
The Child's Learning of English Morphology
Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
Rule Learning by 7-Month-Old Infants
Language
The Non-Anomalous Nature of Anomalous Utterances
Lexical Access during Sentence Comprehension: (Re)Consideration of Context Effects
Language and the Brain
Functional Neuroanatomy of the Cognitive Process of Mapping during Discourse Comprehension
Judgment and Decision Making
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
The Cold Facts about the "Hot Hand" in Basketball
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Schema Induction and Analogical Transfer
Intuitive Reasoning about Abstract and Familiar Physics Problems
Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition
How to Read a Journal Article in Cognitive Psychology
Author Index
Subject Index