Cognition

FROM THE PUBLISHER ; PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION ; LIST OF BOXES ; 1. : Introduction ; CASE STUDY: WHAT IS COGNITION ; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING ; INFORMATION THEORY ; LIMITATIONS ON INFORMATION-PROCESSING ; MODELS OF INFORMATION-PROCESSING ; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY ; METACOGNITION AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ; SUMMARY ; THE RANGE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ; 2. : Cognitive Neuroscience ; CASE STUDY: HEAD OFFICE ; PHRENOLOGY ; THE BRAIN AS THE ORGAN OF THE MIND ; THE RELATION BETWEEN MIND AND BRAIN ; METHODS IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ; 3. : Perception ; CASE STUDY: SOME UNUSUAL PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES ; PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS ; PERCEPTION AS A FUNCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ; PATTERN RECOGNITION ; CONTEXT AND KNOWLEDGE ; THE GRAND ILLUSION ; PERCEIVING WHOLE OBJECTS: GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY ; DISSOCIATIONS OF PERCEPTION ; 4. : The Varieties of Attention ; CASE STUDY: A TOTAL TRAIN WRECK ; JAMES'S DESCRIPTION OF ATTENTION ; SELECTIVE ATTENTION ; DUAL TASKS AND THE LIMITS OF ATTENTION ; TASK SWITCHING ; OVERT VISUAL ATTENTION ; 5. : Memory Traces and Memory Schemas ; CASE STUDY: PICKING COTTON ; SCHEMA-BASED THEORIES OF MEMORY ; THE TRACE THEORY ; RESEARCH BASED ON SCHEMA THEORY ; SCRIPTS ; LEVELS OF PROCESSING ; TWO APPROACHES TO MEMORY RESEARCH ; 6. : Memory Systems ; CASE STUDY: WHAT WAS THAT MOVIE...? ; TULVING AND THE THEORY OF MEMORY SYSTEMS ; THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF MEMORY SYSTEMS ; EPISODIC MEMORY AND AUTONOETIC CONSCIOUSNESS ; THE PERCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM ; SEMANTIC MEMORY ; WORKING MEMORY ; CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF MEMORY ; AGING AND MEMORY DISORDERS ; 7. : Imagery ; CASE STUDY: TIME-SPACE SYNESTHESIA AND NUMBER FORMS ; MEMORY AND IMAGERY ; SYNESTHESIA AND EIDETIC IMAGERY ; MENTAL ROTATION ; EGOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS ; CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE NATURE OF MENTAL IMAGERY ; COGNITIVE MAPS AND MENTAL MODELS ; 8. : Concepts ; CASE STUDY: GRASPING A NEW CONCEPT ; THE CLASSICAL APPROACH ; LEARNING COMPLEX RULES ; WITTGENSTEIN'S ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTS ; ROSCH AND PROTOTYPICALITY ; EMBODIED COGNITION ; FOLK BIOLOGY ; 9. : Language ; CASE STUDY: READING IN THE "OLDEN DAYS" ; THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE ; TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR ; THE INNATENESS HYPOTHESIS ; COMMUNICATION AND COMPREHENSION ; THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF LANGUAGE ; LANGUAGE, COGNITION, AND CULTURE ; 10. : Problem Solving ; CASE STUDY: A SLIPPERY SOLUTION TO MANY PROBLEMS ; INSIGHT PROBLEMS AND THE GESTALT THEORY OF THINKING ; CURRENT APPROACHES TO INSIGHT PROBLEMS ; FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS AND THE DESIGN OF TOOLS ; THE FLEXIBILITY-RIGIDITY DIMENSION ; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPROACHES TO PROBLEM SOLVING ; THINKING ALOUD AS A METHOD FOR STUDYING HUMAN PROBLEM SOLVING ; CAN COMPUTER PROGRAMS EXPERIENCE INSIGHT? ; SOLVING PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE ; 11. : Reasoning, Judgment, and Choice ; CASE STUDY: WHAT A PAIN! ; REASONING ; MENTAL MODELS AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING ; RELATIONAL REASONING ; WASON'S PUZZLE ; JUDGMENT AND CHOICE ; HEURISTICS AND BIASES ; TRAINING IN STATISTICAL REASONING ; ECOLOGICAL RATIONALITY ; 12. : Intelligence and Creativity ; CASE STUDY: A CHILD PRODIGY ; THE CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENCE: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ; GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (G) ; THE FLYNN EFFECT ; STERNBERG'S THEORY OF SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE ; HOWARD GARDNER AND THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES ; EXPERTISE ; CREATIVITY ; 13. : Personal Cognition ; CASE STUDY: CAPGRAS DELUSION ; COGNITION AND EMOTION ; EMOTION AND MEMORY ; COGNITION AND THE SELF ; THINKING ABOUT PERSONS ; GLOSSARY ; REFERENCES ; INDEX