Research Catalog

Title

Essential cognitive psychology / Alan J. Parkin.

Author

Parkin, Alan J.

Publication

Hove, East Sussex : Psychology Press ; Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis, c2000.

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Description

xiv, 354 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This textbook aims to provide the reader with accessible overviews of all core topics in the field of cognitive psychology. These are designed to be a strong basis for developing further interest.

Subject

• Cognition > physiology
• Cognitive psychology
• Language
• Memory > physiology
• Mental Processes > physiology
• Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-340) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origins of cognitive psychology -- Behaviourism -- Gestalt psychology -- Skinner and language -- The birth of modern cognitive psychology -- The computer analogy -- Using human information processing as a scientific theory -- Nativism and nomotheism -- Good and bad cognitive psychology -- Connectionism -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Visual perception -- Forms of perceptual process -- Object recognition -- Overview of theories of perception -- Attention -- Selective attention -- Resource models of attention -- Selection and resources in attention -- Norman and Shallice's model -- Covert attention -- Memory: Short-term storage -- Memory and the behaviourist era -- Memory and cognitive psychology -- The serial position curve -- Short-term and long-term store -- Sensory memory -- Echoic memory -- Recency and STS capacity -- Long-term recency -- Is STS still a valid concept? -- Drugs and STS -- Amnesia and recency effects -- Memory: Long-term store -- The organisation of long-term store -- A three component model of LTS -- Experimental evidence -- Amnesia and the episodic-semantic distinction -- Implicit and explicit memory -- Implicit learning -- Memory: Codes, processes, and loops -- Memory codes -- Codes in verbal memory -- Levels of processing -- Working memory -- Memory: Remembering and forgetting -- How do we know memory is selective? -- Theories of remembering -- Clarifying our terms -- Generation-recognition -- Forgetting -- Context -- Components of recognition memory.

ISBN

• 0863776728
• 0863776736 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00711614^

OCLC

44721173

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library