Essential Cognitive PsychologyThis new textbook provides a clear, fundamental grounding in cognitive psychology for beginning undergraduates. Essential Cognitive Psychology fills the void between low level introductory texts and more advanced books on the topic. This book provides the reader with highly accessible overviews of all core topics in the field. These are designed to be a strong basis for developing further interest in cognitive psychology but, at the same time, provide a self-contained account suitable for all students in psychology whose training requires degree-level competence in the subject. Beginning with a chapter on the origins of cognitive psychology, which facilitates an understanding of the topic as a whole, the book goes on to cover visual perception, attention, memory, knowledge, imagery, language, and reasoning and problem solving. |
Contents
Visual perception | 27 |
Attention | 53 |
Shortterm storage | 79 |
Longterm store | 97 |
Codes processes and loops | 113 |
Remembering and forgetting | 131 |
Knowledge | 157 |
Imagery | 169 |
Comprehension | 227 |
Speaking and thinking | 247 |
Reasoning | 261 |
Problem solving | 279 |
Glossary | 297 |
323 | |
Author index | 341 |
347 | |