Essential Cognitive Psychology

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Psychology Press, 2000 - Medical - 354 pages

This 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.
Each chapter in Essential Cognitive Psychology also contains a list of key terms highlighted in the text and a series of revision questions which address key issues in the chapter. There are also suggestions for further reading.
Written by an internationally recognised scientist and established book author, Essential Cognitive Psychology will be welcomed by teachers and students who require a thorough grounding in the topic without the specialization of more advanced textbooks.

 

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
References
323
Author index
341
Subject index
347

Speech recognition
187
Word recognition and reading
205
Illustration credits
353
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Fictional Minds
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About the author (2000)

Alan Parkin is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. He is author of a number of successful texbooks including Memory: Phenomena, Experiment and Theory, Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Memory and Amnesia, 2nd Edition.

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