This new book provides psychologists with a look at the field of cognitive psychology while integrating neuroscience into the discussion. Experiments are included throughout to show how the concepts are applied in the field. These can be easily reproduced in the lab. Illustrations are also integrated in the chapters to reinforce the discussions. Psychologists will find this book fully bridges cognitive psychology and neuroscience in an accessible way INDICE: 1. INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 1.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEME 1.2 WHAT IS COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY? 1.3 THE INNATE MIND AND ACQUIRED MIND: THE RATIONALIST AND EMPIRICIST TRADITIONS 1.4 MIND AS ASSOCIATIONS 1.5 MIND AS BRAIN: NEUROLOGY, PHRENOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 1.6 MIND AS A NETWORK: FROM NEURONS TO ASSEMBLIES OF NEURONS 1.7 THE MIND AS STRUCTURE 1.8 MIND AS HOLISTIC:GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY 1.9 MIND AS FUNCTIONAL: EVOLUTION AND THE ADAPTIVE MIND 1.10 THE ADAPTIVE MIND: LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND BEHAVIORISM 1.11 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 1.12 MIND AS AN INFORMATION PROCESSOR: THE WORLD WARS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OFINTELLECTUAL TESTING, INFORMATION PROCESSING AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 1.13 MIND ASCOMPUTATIONAL: COMPUTERS, PROBLEM SOLVING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1.14 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 1.15 CONCLUSIONS 1.16 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 1.17 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 1.18 ILLUSTRATIONS 2. FROM SENSATION TO PERCEPTION 2.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 2.2 FROM SENSORY TRANSDUCTION TOPERCEPTIONS 2.3 GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY: TOP-DOWN CONSTRUCTIVE PERCEPTION 2.4 PATTERN PERCEPTION 2.5 BINDING 2.6 SUMMARY 2.7 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 2.8 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 3. ATTENTION IN A NOISY WORLD 3.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 3.2 A CASE OF LEFT-SIDED NEGLECT: FEDERICO FELLINI 3.3 THE FILTER METAPHOR: THE COCKTAIL PARTY PHENOMENON 3.4 THE LEAKY FILTER: MORAY AND TRIESMAN 3.5 THE RESOURCE METAPHOR 3.6 AUTOMATIC AND CONTROLLED PROCESSING 3.7 BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN MIND AND BRAIN: EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, THE SUPERVISORY ATTENTIONAL SYSTEM AND THE BRAIN 3.8 SPACE-BASED ATTENTION AND NEGLECT 3.9 THE SPOTLIGHT METAPHOR: SPACE BASED ATTENTION 3.10 SPATIAL AND OBJECT-ORIENTED NEGLECT 3.11 CONCLUSIONS: ATTENTION 3.12 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 3.13 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 4. THE MODAL MODEL OF MEMORY 4.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 4.2 LIFE MOMENT BY MOMENT 4.3 BACKGROUND FOR THE MODAL MODEL OF MEMORY 4.4 MEMORY: THE MODALMODEL 4.5 GEORGE SPERLINGS DISCOVERY OF SENSORY MEMORY 4.6 SHORT-TERM, OR PRIMARY, MEMORY 4.7 SUMMARY OF THE MODAL MODEL OF MEMORY: TRANSITION TO WORKING MEMORY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION 4.8 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 4.9 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 5. WORKING MEMORY AND THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE 5.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTERTHEMES 5.2 PATIENT P.V.: LOSS OF VERBAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY WITH PRESERVATION OF VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY 5.3 WORKING MEMORY CIRCA 1974 5.4 WORKING MEMORY CIRCA 2000 5.5 FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF WORKING MEMORY 5.6 BUILDING BRIDGES: THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE AND THE FRONTAL LOBES 5.7 SUMMARY 5.8 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 5.9 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 6. MAKING MEMORIES 6.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 6.2 PI TO 31,811 DIGITS 6.3 FACTORS INFLUENCING MEMORY ENCODING 6.4 ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY AND MEMORY 6.5 BUILDING BRIDGES: CONSOLIDATION OF ENCODING 6.6 CONCLUSIONS 6.7 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 6.8 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 7. RETRIEVAL AND MEMORY DISTORTION 7.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 7.2 EBBINGHAUSMEMORY OVER TIME 7.3 WHY DO WE FORGET? 7.4 MEMORY DISTORTION 7.5 CONCLUSIONS:RETRIEVAL AND MEMORY DISTORTION 7.6 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 7.7 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 8. VARIATIONS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY 8.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 8.2 K.C.: THE LOSS OF EPISODIC MEMORY 8.3 TYPES OF LONG-TERM MEMORY 8.4 DECLARATIVE, EXPLICIT MEMORY: EPISODIC MEMORY 8.5 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY 8.6 NON-DECLARATIVE: IMPLICIT MEMORY 8.7 I KNOW YOUR FACE BUT I CANT REMEMBER.. .. ?: KNOWING VERSUS REMEMBERING 8.8 DO EPISODIC MEMORIES BECOME SEMANTIC MEMORIES? 8.9 BUILDING BRIDGES: TEMPORAL LOBE EXPLICIT MEMORY AND STRIATUM IMPLICIT MEMORY 8.10 CONCLUSIONS: ONE MEMORY OR MANY? 8.11 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 8.12 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 9. CATEGORIZATION AND MEANING 9.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTERTHEMES 9.2 THE STORY OF THE PLAGUE OF INSOMNIA 9.3 CATEGORIES AND SEMANTIC NETWORKS: THE CLASSICAL RULE-BASED APPROACH 9.4 PROBLEMS FOR THE CLASSICAL MODEL9.5 FEATURE COMPARISON MODELS 9.6 SCHEMATA, FRAMES AND SCRIPTS 9.7 IMAGERY BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION 9.8 CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF MIND 9.9 CONCLUSIONS:CATEGORIES AND MEANING 9.10 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 9.11 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 10. CONSCIOUSNESS 10.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 10.2 NOW I AM AWAKE!-- THE LIFE OF CLIVE WEARING 10.3 THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10.4 CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10.5 THE THEATRE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10.6 PERCEPTUAL BINDING AS A MODEL FOR CONSCIOUSNESS 10.7 BRIDGING BRAIN AND MIND: THE GLOBAL NEURONAL WORKPLACE 10.8 AWARENESS OF SELF AND OTHERS: MIRROR NEURONS, ACTION AND UNDERSTANDING 10.9 CONCLUSION: THE ZOMBIE WITHIN -- THE PURPOSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10.10 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 10.11 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 11. THE DESCRIPTION AND OVERVIEW OF LANGUAGE 11.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 11.2 THE STORY OF MY LIFE, HELEN KELLER 11.3 LANGUAGE AND SPEECH 11.4 THE SPEECH SIGNAL 11.5 SEMANTIC, TOP-DOWN, INFLUENCE ON SPEECH PERCEPTION 11.6 MORPHEMES 11.7 SYNTAX: SURFACE AND DEEP STRUCTURE 11.8 WORD, SENTENCES AND THE EXTRACTION OF MEANING 11.9 FROM SENTENCES TO NARRATIVE AND DISCOURSE 11.10 BUILDING BRIDGES: INFERENCE AND THE BRAIN 11.11 CONCLUSIONS: LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND OVERVIEW 11.12TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 11.13 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 12. FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE THEORY 12.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 12.2 NATIVIST VERSUS EMPIRICIST THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 12.3 THE SOURCE OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE 12.4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE 12.5 THE LANGUAGE GENE 12.6 INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 12.7 RECENT CHALLENGES TO THE NATIVIST POSITION 12.8 THOUGHT BEFORE LANGUAGE? 12.9 MODULARITY OF LANGUAGE 12.10 CONCLUSIONS: LANGUAGE ISSUES 12.11 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 12.12 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 13. INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 13.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13.3 GAME THEORY 13.4 EXPERT SYSTEMS 13.5 CONCLUSIONS 13.6 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 13.7 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS 14. PROBLEM SOLVING AND REASONING 14.1 PREVIEW OF CHAPTER THEMES 14.2 EARLY RESEARCH ON PROBLEM SOLVING: THE GESTALT TRADITION 14.3 REASONING 14.4 MENTAL MODELS 14.5 BUILDING BRIDGES: IMAGING DECISION MAKING 14.6 BUT ARE WE REALLY ILLOGICAL? 14.7 TEST YOURSELF STUDY QUESTIONS 14.8 KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS Appendix A: NEURONS Appendix B: GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRAIN Appendix C: IMAGING THE BRAIN
- ISBN: 978-0-471-71566-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 624
- Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés