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Tables of Contents for Principles of Cognitive Psychology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About the Author
x
Preface
xi
Approaches to cognitive psychology
1
12
Introduction
1
2
Four major approaches
3
7
Summary: Approaches to cognitive psychology
10
1
Essay question
11
2
Major perceptual processes
13
52
The visual system
13
7
Perceptual organisation
20
6
General approaches to perception
26
14
Colour perception
40
7
Movement perception
47
5
Space or depth perception
52
5
Perception without awareness
57
4
Summary: Major perceptual processes
61
3
Essay questions
64
1
Object recognition
65
48
Introduction
65
1
Pattern recognition
65
8
Object recognition
73
6
Visual agnosia
79
8
Face recognition
87
11
Perceptual development
98
11
Summary: Object recognition
109
2
Essay questions
111
2
Attention and pattern recognition
113
44
Introduction
113
1
Focused auditory attention
114
5
Focused visual attention
119
11
Divided attention
130
12
Automatic processing
142
7
Action slips
149
5
Summary: Attention and pattern recognition
154
2
Essay questions
156
1
Short-term memory and learning
157
32
Introduction
157
1
Multi-store model
157
9
Working memory
166
10
Levels of processing
176
5
Implicit learning
181
4
Summary: Short-term memory and learning
185
2
Essay questions
187
2
Long-term memory
189
42
Introduction
189
1
Theories of forgetting
189
11
Theories of long-term memory
200
5
Amnesia
205
8
Schema theories
213
6
Everyday memory
219
9
Summary: Long-term memory
228
2
Essay questions
230
1
Basic language processes
231
46
Introduction
231
1
Language acquisition
231
12
Speech perception
243
8
Cognitive neuropsychology of speech perception
251
4
Basic reading processes
255
10
Routes from print to sound
265
9
Summary: Basic language processes
274
2
Essay questions
276
1
Language comprehension and production
277
38
Introduction
277
1
Discourse processing
277
6
Story processing
283
6
Speech production
289
9
Speech disorders
298
3
Cognitive neuroscience
301
3
Language and thought
304
7
Summary: Language comprehension and production
311
2
Essay questions
313
2
Problem solving and decision making
315
36
Introduction
315
1
Problem solving
315
11
Expertise
326
5
Decision making
331
7
Judgement research
338
9
Summary: Problem solving and decision making
347
2
Essay questions
349
2
Reasoning
351
30
Introduction
351
2
Analogical reasoning
353
5
Deductive reasoning
358
8
Theories of deductive reasoning
366
6
Inductive reasoning
372
4
How flawed is human reasoning?
376
1
Summary: Reasoning
377
2
Essay questions
379
2
Glossary
381
8
References
389
34
Author Index
423
8
Subject Index
431