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Cognitive psychology /
Cognitive processes enable us to experience the world around us: to recognise a friendly face in a crowd, to communicate our passions, to recall memories from the past. When these processes stop working, it can turn friends into strangers, render speech impossible, and make history a confusion of tr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of contributors; 1 FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 1 Introduction; 2 What is cognitive psychology?; 3 A brief history of cognitive psychology; 3.1 Introspectionism; 3.2 Gestalt psychology; 3.3 Behaviourism; 3.4 The return of the cognitive; 4 Science, models, and the mind; 5 The cognitive approach; 5.1 Representation; 5.2 Computation; 6 Level-dependent explanations; 6.1 The computational level; 6.2 The algorithmic level; 6.3 The implementational level; 6.4 Using Marr's levels; 7 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 1 PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES; INTRODUCTION.
- 2 ATTENTION1 Auditory attention; 2 Visual attention; 3 Integrating information in clearly-seen displays; 4 Attention and distraction; 5 The neurology of attention; 6 Drawing it all together; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 3 PERCEPTION; 1 Introduction; 2 The Gestalt approach to perception; 3 Gibson's theory of perception; 4 Marr's theory of perception; 5 Constructivist approaches to perception; 6 The physiology of the human visual system; 7 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 4 RECOGNITION; 1 Introduction; 2 Different types of recognition; 3 Recognizing three-dimensional objects.
- 4 Face recognition5 Modelling face recognition; 6 Neuropsychological evidence; 7 Are faces 'special'?; 8 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 2 CONCEPTS AND LANGUAGE; INTRODUCTION; 5 CONCEPTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Explaining categorization; 3 Where next?; 4 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 6 LANGUAGE PROCESSING; 1 Introduction; 2 Word recognition; 3 The mental lexicon; 4 Sentence comprehension; 5 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 7 LANGUAGE IN ACTION; 1 Introduction; 2 Written language and discourse; 3 Language production and dialogue; 4 Conclusions; FURTHER READING.
- FURTHER READINGREFERENCES; 11 JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING; 1 Introduction; 2 Normative theory of choice under risk; 3 Findings from behavioural decision research; 4 Prospect theory; 5 Judgement under uncertainty; 6 Fast and frugal theories of decision making; 7 Conclusion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 12 REASONING; 1 Introduction; 2 Deductive reasoning and logic; 3 Psychological theories of reasoning; 4 Conditional inference; 5 Wason's selection task; 6 Discussion; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART 5 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; INTRODUCTION; 13 COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY.