Cognitive Psychology
Classic Edition
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2014
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-84872-693-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1967, this seminal volume by Ulric Neisser was the first attempt at a comprehensive and accessible survey of Cognitive Psychology; as such, it provided the field with its first true textbook.
Its chapters are organized so that they began with stimulus information that came 'inward' through the organs of sense, through its many transformations and reconstructions, and finally through to its eventual use in thought and memory.
The volume inspired numerous students enter the field of cognitive psychology and some of the today's leading and most respected cognitive psychologists cite Neisser's book as the reason they embarked on their careers.
Its chapters are organized so that they began with stimulus information that came 'inward' through the organs of sense, through its many transformations and reconstructions, and finally through to its eventual use in thought and memory.
The volume inspired numerous students enter the field of cognitive psychology and some of the today's leading and most respected cognitive psychologists cite Neisser's book as the reason they embarked on their careers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 s/w Zeichnungen
40 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84872-693-2 (9781848726932)
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Person
Ulric Neisser (December 8, 1928 - February 17, 2012) was a German-born American psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a significant figure in the development of cognitive science and the shift from behaviorist to cognitive models in psychology. He earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1950, a master's at Swarthmore College, and a doctorate from Harvard's Department of Social Relations in 1956. He then taught at Brandeis and Emory universities, before establishing himself at Cornell.
Content
Foreword to the Classic Edition by Ira Hyman. Preface. Part 1: Introduction. 1. The Cognitive Approach. Part 2: Visual Cognition. 2. Iconic Storage and Verbal Coding. 3. Pattern Recognition. 4. Focal Attention and Figural Synthesis. 5. Words as Visual Patterns. 6. Visual Memory. Part 3: Auditory Cognition. 7. Speech Perception. 8. Echoic Memory and Auditory Attention. 9. Active Verbal Memory. 10. Sentences. Part 4: The Higher Mental Processes. 11. A Cognitive Approach to Memory and Thought.