Cognitive psychology : a student's handbook /
By: Eysenck, Michael W.
Contributor(s): Keane, Mark T [author].
Publisher: London ; New York : Psychology Press, 2015Edition: Seventh edition.Description: 838 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781848724167; 9781848724167:; 1848724160; 9781848724150; 1848724152; 9781315778006.Subject(s): Cognition | Cognitive psychology | Psychology![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 733-811) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Approaches to human cognition -- Introduction -- Cognitive psychology -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Cognitive neuroscience: the brain in action -- Computational cognitive science -- Comparisons of major approaches -- Outline of this book -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 2.Basic processes in visual perception -- Introduction -- Vision and the brain -- Two visual systems: perception and action -- Colour vision -- Depth perception -- Perception without awareness -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 3.Object and face recognition -- Introduction -- Pattern recognition -- Perceptual organisation -- Approaches to object recognition -- Face recognition -- Visual imagery -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 4.Perception, motion and action -- Introduction -- Direct perception -- Visually guided action -- Planning-control model -- Perception of human motion -- Change blindness -- Chapter summary -- Further reading
Note continued: 5.Attention and performance -- Introduction -- Focused auditory attention -- Focused visual attention -- Disorders of visual attention -- Visual search -- Cross-modal effects -- Divided attention: dual-task performance -- Automatic processing -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 6.Learning, memory and forgetting -- Introduction -- Architecture of memory -- Working memory -- Working memory capacity -- Levels of processing -- Learning through retrieval -- Implicit learning -- Forgetting from long-term memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 7.Long-term memory systems -- Introduction -- Declarative memory -- Episodic memory -- Semantic memory -- Non-declarative memory -- Beyond declarative and non-declarative memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 8.Everyday memory -- Introduction -- Autobiographical memory: introduction -- Memories across the lifetime -- Theoretical approaches to autobiographical memory -- Eyewitness testimony
Note continued: Enhancing eyewitness memory -- Prospective memory -- Theoretical perspectives on prospective memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 9.Reading and speech perception -- Introduction -- Reading: introduction -- Word recognition -- Reading aloud -- Reading: eye-movement research -- Speech perception: introduction -- Listening to speech -- Context effects -- Theories of speech perception -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 10.Language comprehension -- Introduction -- Parsing: overview -- Models of parsing -- Pragmatics -- Individual differences: working memory capacity -- Discourse processing: inferences -- Discourse comprehension: theoretical approaches -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 11.Language production -- Introduction -- Speech planning -- Speech errors -- Theories of speech production -- Cognitive neuropsychology: speech production -- Speech as communication -- Writing: the main processes
Note continued: Spelling -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 12.Problem solving and expertise -- Introduction -- Problem solving: introduction -- Gestalt approach: insight and role of experience -- Problem-solving strategies -- Analogical problem solving -- Expertise -- Chess-playing expertise -- Medical expertise -- Brain plasticity -- Deliberate practice -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 13.Judgment and decision making -- Introduction -- Judgment research -- Judgment theories -- Decision making under risk -- Decision making: emotional and social factors -- Complex decision making -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 14.Reasoning and hypothesis testing -- Introduction -- Hypothesis testing -- Deductive reasoning -- Theories of deductive reasoning -- Brain systems in reasoning -- Informal reasoning -- Are humans rational? -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 15.Cognition and emotion -- Introduction -- Appraisal theories -- Emotion regulation
Note continued: Affect and cognition: attention and memory -- Affect and cognition: judgement and decision making -- Anxiety, depression and cognitive biases -- Cognitive bias modification -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- 16.Consciousness -- Introduction -- Functions of consciousness -- Assessing consciousness and conscious experience -- Global workspace theoretical approach -- Is consciousness unitary? -- Chapter summary -- Further reading.
This seventh edition has been substantially updated and restructured in line with new developments in cognitive psychology and the way it is studied at undergraduate level. In particular it focuses on cognitive neuroscience.