Cognitive psychology /
Ronald T. Kellogg.
- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995.
- xxi, 523 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Advanced psychology texts ; v. 2 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-502) and indexes.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Discipline PART TWO: BASIC COGNITIVE OPERATIONS Sensation and Perception Attention Memory PART THREE: ACQUIRING AND USING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL Learning, Remembering and Forgetting Knowledge Representation and Use Expertise PART FOUR: THE NATURE AND USE OF LANGUAGE Language Speaking and Listening Writing and Reading PART FIVE: THINKING SKILLS AND INTELLIGENCE Problem Solving Reasoning and Decision Making Intelligence and Thinking PART SIX: THE PAST AND FUTURE Consciousness DETAILS OF THE CHAPTERS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: THE DISCIPLINE Introduction to Cognitive Psychology; History of Cognitive Psychology; Contemporary Cognitive Psychology; Overview of the Text PART TWO: BASIC COGNITIVE OPERATIONS CHAPTER TWO: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION Perception as Informed Construction; Sensory Registration; Pattern Recognition Processes; Perceiving Objects in Scenes CHAPTER THREE: ATTENTION Filter Theories; Capacity Theories; Automatic Processes; Visual Attention: A Closer Look CHAPTER FOUR: MEMORY Short-Term versus Long-Term Memory; Revisions to the Multistore Model; Types of Long-Term Memory PART THREE: ACQUIRING AND USING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL CHAPTER FIVE: LEARNING, REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Encoding and Storing Events; Retrieval Processes; Schemas and Memory CHAPTER SIX: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND USE Schemas; Schema Modification and Acquisition; Representational Codes; Using Semantic Memory CHAPTER SEVEN: EXPERTISE Characteristics of Expertise; Illustrations of Expertise; Computer Models of Expertise PART FOUR: THE NATURE AND USE OF LANGUAGE CHAPTER EIGHT: LANGUAGE Characteristics of Language; Grammars; Thought and Language CHAPTER NINE: SPEAKING AND LISTENING Speech Production; Speech Comprehension; The Relation of Production and Comprehension CHAPTER TEN: WRITING AND READING Text Production; Text Comprehension; Components of Reading Skill PART FIVE: THINKING SKILLS AND INTELLIGENCE CHAPTER ELEVEN: PROBLEM SOLVING Types of Thinking; A General Model of Problem Solving; Obstacles to Problem Solving; Creativity CHAPTER TWELVE: REASONING AND DECISION MAKING Syllogistic Reasoning; Conditional Reasoning; Inductive Reasoning; Decision Making CHAPTER THIRTEEN: INTELLIGENCE AND THINKING Traditional Views of Intelligence; Three Alternatives to Tradition; The Enhancement of Thinking Skills; Gender Differences PART SIX: THE PAST AND FUTURE CHAPTER FOURTEEN: CONSCIOUSNESS Varieties of Waking Consciousness; Dreaming and Daydreaming; Properties of Waking Consciousness; The Mind-Body Problem; The Future of Cognitive Psychology