Cognition, fifth edition - Rilegato

Smilek, Daniel; Sinnett, Scott; Kingstone, Alan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195447492 ISBN 13: 9780195447491

Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2013

Riassunto

Cognition, 5e, is a comprehensive introduction to the field of cognitive psychology. Cognition examines the mental processes behind how we come to know about the world in which we live. Covering a wide range of topics such as perception, memory, attention, and language, and the common cognitive disorders associated with each, Cognition applies real-life examples to the key theories in order to create an accessible yet comprehensive primer to the field.

This new edition features relevant case studies to open and close each chapter and a full ancillary suite, including an online Discovery Lab to test or demonstrate the text's key theories.

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L'autore:

Daniel Smilek is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. He is also actively involved in new cognitive research related to perception, language, and memory. In addition to Cognition, Dan has previously written for Oxford UK, having contributed a chapter to the Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Scott Sinnett is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focuses on attention and perception in both applied and laboratory settings. He teaches a number of courses ranging from introductory psychology to upper-year courses in cognitive psychology. Alan Kingstone is a professor at the University of British Columbia. Alan is an associate editor of the British Journal of Psychology and commonly teaches upper-year courses in cognitive neuroscience and brain and behaviour in addition to running the neuroscience lab at UBC.

Contenuti:

• 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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0195447492
• ISBN 13: 9780195447491
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 512