Cognitive Psychology 5th Edition by Robert J Sternberg ISBN 049550629X 9780495506294

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ISBN 10: 049550629X 
ISBN 13: 9780495506294
Author:  Robert J Sternberg

With an accessible, easy-to-understand writing style, the fifth edition of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY will give you the tools you need to be successful in the course! This text covers cognitive neuroscience, attention and consciousness, perception, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem-solving and creativity, decision-making and reasoning, cognitive development, and intelligence. Common themes at the end of every chapter will help you spend more time studying important information and less time trying to figure out what you need to know. The author provides a “from lab to life” approach covering theory and lab and field research, as well as applications to everyday life., With an accessible, easy-to-understand writing style, the fifth edition of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY will give you the tools you need to be successful in the course This text covers cognitive neuroscience, attention and consciousness, perception, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem-solving and creativity, decision-making and reasoning, cognitive development, and intelligence. Common themes at the end of every chapter will help you spend more time studying important information and less time trying to figure out what you need to know. The author provides a “from lab to life” approach covering theory and lab and field research, as well as applications to everyday life.

Cognitive Psychology 5th Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction and Research Methods

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • What Is Cognitive Psychology?
  • Philosophical Antecedents of Psychology: Rationalism vs. Empiricism
  • Psychological Antecedents of Cognitive Psychology
  • Early Dialectics in the Psychology of Cognition
  • The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology
  • Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology
  • Key Issues and Fields within Cognitive Psychology
  • Underlying Themes in the Study of Cognitive Psychology
• Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Exploring Cognitive Psychology (Brain Structure and Function)
  • From Neuron to Brain: Organization of the Nervous System
  • Viewing the Structures and Functions of the Brain (e.g., fMRI, PET, EEG)
  • Cognition in the Brain: Cerebral Cortex and Other Structures
  • Brain Disorders and Cognition

Part II: Perception and Attention

• Chapter 3: Perception
  • Exploring Cognitive Psychology (From Sensation to Representation)
  • Basics of Vision
  • Some Basic Concepts of Perception
  • Perceptual Constancies
  • Depth Perception
  • Approaches to Object and Form Perception (e.g., Bottom-Up and Top-Down Theories)
  • Deficits in Perception
• Chapter 4: Attention and Consciousness
  • The Nature of Attention and Consciousness
  • Preconscious Processing
  • Controlled versus Automatic Processes
  • Habituation and Adaptation
  • Signal Detection Theory
  • Vigilance and Search
  • Selective Attention (e.g., Cocktail Party Effect, Filter Theories)
  • Divided Attention (Multitasking)
  • Consciousness of Complex Mental Processes
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Cognitive Neuroscientific Approaches to Attention and Consciousness

Part III: Memory

• Chapter 5: Memory: Models and Research Methods
  • Tasks Used for Measuring Memory (Recall, Recognition, Implicit, Explicit)
  • Traditional Model of Memory (Sensory, Short-Term, Long-Term Store)
  • The Levels-of-Processing Model
  • An Integrative Model: Working Memory
  • Multiple Memory Systems
• Chapter 6: Memory Processes
  • Encoding and Transfer of Information (Rehearsal, Elaboration, Mnemonic Devices)
  • Storage of Information
  • Retrieval from Memory
  • Processes of Forgetting and Memory Distortion
  • Memory in the Brain
  • Exceptional Memory and Neuropsychology

Part IV: Knowledge Representation and Language

• Chapter 7: Representation and Manipulation of Knowledge in Memory: Images and Propositions
  • Mental Representation of Knowledge
  • Communicating Knowledge: Pictures versus Words
  • Mental Imagery
  • Propositional Theory
  • Challenges to Imagery and Propositional Theories
• Chapter 8: Representation and Organization of Knowledge in Memory: Concepts, Categories, Networks, and Schemas
  • Concepts and Categories
  • Semantic-Network Models
  • Schemas, Scripts, and Frames
  • Connectionist Models
• Chapter 9: Language: Nature and Acquisition
  • Properties of Language
  • The Structure of Language (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics)
  • Language Acquisition (Stages, Theories)
  • Language in the Brain
• Chapter 10: Language in Context
  • Reading (Perception, Comprehension)
  • Discourse Comprehension
  • Speech Perception and Comprehension
  • Conversational Interaction
  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • Language and Thought (Linguistic Relativity)

Part V: Higher-Order Cognition

• Chapter 11: Problem Solving and Creativity
  • The Problem-Solving Cycle
  • Types of Problems
  • Approaches to Problem Solving (Well-Structured Problems, Ill-Structured Problems)
  • Obstacles and Aids to Problem Solving
  • Creativity
• Chapter 12: Decision Making and Reasoning
  • Reasoning (Deductive, Inductive)
  • Judgment and Decision Making (Heuristics, Biases)
  • Bayes’s Theorem
  • Opportunity Costs and Sunk Costs
  • Cognitive Psychology and Economics
• Chapter 13: Human and Artificial Intelligence
  • What Is Intelligence?
  • Three Cognitive Models of Intelligence (Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences)
  • Measurement of Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • The Future of Cognitive Psychology

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