Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 786 g
Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 786 g
ISBN: 978-1-4641-4891-0
Verlag: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
With this new edition of his classic textbook, Anderson again takes students to the forefront of the field, incorporating the latest theoretical breakthroughs, research findings, and technological advances, as well as marking the increasing role of neuroscience in the study of cognitive functions. As always, Anderson makes his discussions of higher mental processes concrete and accessible with fascinating examples and clear explanations of the underlying research.
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Zielgruppe
Lower undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface.- 1. The Science of Cognition.- Motivations for Studying Cognitive Psychology.- The History of Cognitive Psychology.- Information Processing; The Communicative Neurons.- Organization of the Brain.- Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience.- 2. Perception.- Visual Perception in the Brain.- Visual Pattern Recognition.- Implications: Separating humans from BOTs.- Speech Recognition.- Feature Analysis of Speech.- Categorical Perception.- Context and Pattern Recognition.- Conclusions.- 3. Attention and Performance.- Serial Bottlenecks.- Auditory Attention.- Visual Attention.- Central Attention: Selecting Lines of Thought to Pursue.- Implications: Why is cell phone use and driving a dangerous combination?.- Conclusions.- 4. Mental Imagery.- Verbal Imagery Versus Visual Imagery.- Implications: Using brain activation to read people’s minds.- Visual Imagery.- Conclusions: Visual Perception and Visual Imagery.- 5. Representation of Knowledge.- Knowledge and Regions of the Brain.- Memory for Meaningful Interpretations of Events.- Implications: Mnemonic techniques for remembering vocabulary items.- Propositional Representations.- Embodied Cognition.- Conceptual Knowledge.- Conclusions.- 6. Human Memory: Encoding and Storage.- Memory and the Brain.- Sensory Memory Holds Information Briefly.- Working Memory Holds the Information Needed to Perform a Task.- Activation and Long-Term Memory.- Practice and Memory Strength.- Factors Influencing Memory.- Implications: How does the method of loci help us organize recall?.- Flashbulb Memories.- Conclusions.- 7. Human Memory: Retention and Retrieval.- Are Memories Really Forgotten?.- The Retention Function.- How Interference Affects Memory.- Retrieval and Inference.- Implications: How have advertisers used knowledge of cognitive psychology?.- Associative Structure and Retrieval.- The Hippocampal Formation and Amnesia.- Implicit Versus Explicit Memory.- Conclusions: The Many Varieties of Memory in the Brain.- 8. Problem Solving.- The Nature of Problem Solving.- Problem-Solving Operators.- Operator Selection.- Problem Representation.- Set Effects.- Conclusions.- Appendix: Solutions.- 9. Expertise.- Brain Changes with Skill Acquisition.- General Characteristics of Skill Acquisition.- The Nature of Expertise.- Implications: Computers achieve chess expertise differently than humans.- Transfer of Skill.- Theory of Identical Elements.- Educational Implications.- Conclusions.- 10. Reasoning.- Reasoning and the Brain.- Reasoning About Conditionals.- Deductive Reasoning: Reasoning About Quantifiers.- Inductive Reasoning and Hypothesis Testing.- Implications: How convincing is a 90% result?.- Dual-Process Theories.- Conclusions.- 11. Decision Making.- The Brain and Decision Making.- Probabilistic Judgment.- Making Decisions Under Uncertainty.- Implications: Why are adolescents more likely to make bad decisions?.- Conclusions.- 12. Language Structure.- Language and the Brain.- The Field of Linguistics.- Syntactic Formalisms.- What is So Special About Human Language?.- Implications: Ape language and the ethics of experimentation.- The Relation Between Language and Thought.- Language Acquisition.- Conclusions: The Uniqueness of Language: A Summary.- 13. Language Comprehension.- Brain and Language Comprehension.- Parsing.- Implications: Intelligent chatterboxes.- Utilization.- Text Processing.- Situation Models.- Conclusions.- 14. Individual Differences in.
