Approaches to Cognition
Contrasts and Controversies
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2016
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-1-138-64101-3 (ISBN)
Description
To the vast majority of academic psychologists in the 1980s, the study of cognition referred to that area of psychology known as 'cognitive psychology'. The major basis of this area had been the computer metaphor with its accompanying notion of the individual as an information-processing system. Yet within the field the study of cognition is much broader and has a history that reaches into antiquity, whereas 'cognitive psychology' as information-processing psychology had only recently become the standard bearer of cognitive studies.
One of the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental distinctions between and concordances among different orientations concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and operant psychology.
One of the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental distinctions between and concordances among different orientations concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and operant psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-64101-3 (9781138641013)
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Persons
Terry J. Knapp, Lynn C. Robertson
Content
Preface 1. Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Daniel N. Robinson 2. The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century Terry J. Knapp 3. The Information Processing Approach to Cognition Stephen E. Palmer and Ruth Kimchi 4. Why I Am Not a Cognitive Psychologist B.F. Skinner 5. Bringing Cognition and Creativity into the Behavioral Laboratory Robert Epstein 6. Understanding Animal Cognition Donald A. Riley, Michael F. Brown and Sonja I. Yoerg 7. J.J. Gibson's Ecological Theory of Information Pickup: Cognition From the Ground Up William M. Mace 8. From Gestalt to Neo-Gestalt Lynn C. Robertson 9. Cognitive Intervention in Perceptual Processing Irvin Rock 10. Toward a Computational Neuropsychology of High-Level Vision Stephen Michael Kosslyn 11. Cognitive Neuropsychology Dean C. Delis and Beth A. Ober 12. Putting Cognitive Psychology to Work: Examples from Computer System Design Louis M. Gomez and Susan T. Dumais 13. A Coordination of Differences: Behaviorism, Mentalism, and the Foundations of Psychology Roger Schnaitter. Author Index. Subject Index