Description
Book SynopsisCognitive Psychology, Fifth Edition, provides balanced coverage of the core areas of the discipline, including perception, memory, language, pattern recognition, and thinking. John Best skillfully relates cognitive psychology to students'' experience and provides a solid foundation for later studies in psychology or in related fields. Experiments throughout the book are described in detail, enhancing students'' comprehension of the concepts and helping students who have not had courses in experimental psychology or statistics to grasp the concepts. With additional demonstrations and a contemporary treatment of memory, Best addresses complex issues in cognitive neuroscience clearly and completely.
Table of ContentsPart 1: INTRODUCTION
* Cognitive Psychology: Definitions, Roots, and Metaphors
Part 2: PERCEPTION
* Attention and Object Recognition
Part 3: MEMORY
* Memory as Storage
* Memory as Recomputation and Correspondence
Part 4: ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
* Structure of Knowledge: A Symbolic Approach
* Structure of Knowledge: A Connectionist Approach
Part 5: LANGUAGE
* Structure of Language
* Cognitive Process In Speech and Language Perception
* Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development
Part 6: THINKING
* Reasoning and Deciding
* Concepts and Categories
* Problem Solving
