Cognitive Psychology
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Cognitive Psychology provides an intuitive pathway through the core topics and concepts required by the British Psychological Society. The book covers all areas of human cognition including questions and ideas about how we think, reason, remember, and use language. Balancing classic research with new, cutting-edge topics, this is the perfect introduction to Cognitive Psychology.
With a clear and straightforward style, this easy-to-follow textbook explores the core topics and concepts through contemporary research, globally relevant, diverse examples and Cognition in everyday life to show how relevant Cognitive Psychology is to all of us. Highlighting the research and achievements of key People/figures from around the world and the impact they have had on cognitive psychology. With coverage of Neuropsychology and Neuroscience, Cognition and Emotion, and Social Cognition, including topics like empathy, theory of mind, social rejection and loneliness, this combination of depth and breadth of content, provided in an accessible and multimedia/interactive way helps students to dive into this intriguing subject area.
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Prof Lambros Lazuras is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol, British Psychological Society) with expertise in social cognition and decision-making. His research is supported by prestigious funding bodies and spans mental health, substance misuse, and health-related behaviours. Lambros is a Professor and Director of Research at the School of Psychology, Sport Science, & Wellbeing at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Dr Antonia Ypsilanti is Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a leading researcher in the field of loneliness with a focus on understanding how cognitive biases influence social connections and decision-making in clinical and non-clinical populations. Dr Ypsilanti is the co-Director of the Campaign to End Loneliness and a co-Leader of the Global Ageing Thematic Group of Cochrane Reviews.
Prof Gabriel Radvansky is Director of Graduate Studies at The University of Notre Dame, specialising in cognition, the brain and behaviours.
Prof Mark Ashcraft was an American academic and the chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Content
- 1 Understanding Cognitive Psychology
- 1.1 Thinking about thinking
- 1.2 Memory and Cognition Defined
- 1.3 An Introductory History of Cognitive Psychology
- 1.4 Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing
- 1.5 Measuring Information Processes
- 1.6 The Standard Theory and Cognitive Science
- 1.7 Themes of Human Cognition
- 2 Neural Basis of Cognition
- 2.1 The Brain and Cognition Together
- 2.2 Basic Neural Functions
- 2.3Important Brain Structures and Function
- 2.4 Cognitive Neuropsychology
- 2.5 Connectionism
- 3 Sensation and Perception
- 3.1Psychophysics
- 3.2Visual Sensation and Perception
- 3.3Pattern Recognition
- 3.4Top-Down Processing
- 3.5Object Recognition and Agnosia
- 3.6Auditory Sensation and Perception
- 4 Attention
- 4.1 Multiple Meanings of Attention
- 4.2 Basic Input Attentional Processes
- 4.3 Controlled, Voluntary Attention
- 4.4 Attention as a Mental Resource
- 5 Short-Term and Working Memory
- 5.1 A Limited-Capacity Bottleneck
- 5.2 Short-Term Memory Retrieval
- 5.3 Working Memory
- 5.4 Assessing Working Memory
- 5.5 Working Memory and Cognition
- 6 Learning and Remembering
- 6.1 Preliminary Issues
- 6.2 Storing Information in Episodic Memory
- 6.3 Boosting Episodic Memory
- 6.4 Context
- 6.5 Facts and Situation Models
- 6.6 Autobiographical Memories
- 6.7 Memory for the Future
- 6.8 Semantic Memory
- 7 Memory and Forgetting
- 7.1 The Seven Sins of Memory
- 7.2 Forgetting Through Decay and Interference
- 7.3 False Memories, Eyewitness Memory, and 'Forgotten Memories'
- 7.4 Amnesia and Implicit Memory
- 8 Language
- 8.1 Linguistic Universals and Functions
- 8.2 Phonology
- 8.3 Syntax
- 8.4 Lexical Factors
- 8.5 Semantics
- 8.6 Brain and Language
- 9 Language Comprehension
- 9.1 Conceptual and Rule Knowledge
- 9.2 Reading
- 9.3 Reference, Situation Models, and Events
- 9.4 Conversation and Gesture
- 10 Reasoning and Decision-making
- 10.1 Formal Logic and Reasoning
- 10.2 Decisions
- 10.3 Classic Heuristics, Biases, and Fallacies
- 10.4 Framing and Risky Decisions
- 10.5 Adaptive Thinking and 'Fast and Frugal' Heuristics
- 10.6 Other Explanations
- 10.7 Limitations in Reasoning
- 11 Problem-solving
- 11.1 Studying Problem-solving
- 11.2 Basics of Problem-solving
- 11.3 Gestalt Psychology and Problem-solving
- 11.4 Insight and Analogy
- 11.5 MeansEnd Analysis
- 11.6 Improving Your Problem-solving
- 12 Social cognition
- 12.1 The Neural Basis of Social Cognition
- 12.2 Understanding the self
- 12.3 Understanding Others: Mentalising and Empathising
- 12.4 Responding to Adverse Social Signals
- 13 Cognition and Emotion
- 13.1 What Is Emotion?
- 13.2 Emotion and Perception
- 13.3 Emotion and Memory
- 13.4Emotion and Language
- 13.5 Emotion and Decision Making
- 14 Research Methods in Human Cognition
- 14.1 Purpose of Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology
- 14.2. Reaction-Time Based Tasks
- 14.3 Visual search tasks
- 14.4. Neurophysiological Methods
- 14.5 Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation Methods
- 14.6 Research Integrity and Ethics