1. An Introduction to Cognition. What Is Cognition?
Psychology B.C. (Before Cognitive Psychology).
RECURRING RESEARCH THEME: COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS.
The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology.
Psychology A.D. (After the Decline of Behaviorism).
RECURRING RESEARCH THEME: COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE.
RECURRING RESEARCH THEME: COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE.
2. Research Methods in Cognition. Descriptive Research.
Experimental Research.
The Cognitive Psychology Experiment.
The Factorial Design.
Cognitive Neuroscience: Investigating Mind and Brain.
3. Early Perceptual Processing. Basic Perceptual Processes.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Non-Visual Acuity in the Blind. Interactive Effects in Perception.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Gestalt Grouping and Illusory Percepts. COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Blindsight. Sensory Memory.
4. Attending to and Manipulating Information. Attention.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
A Shocking Failure of Early Selection. Automaticity.
Short-Term Memory.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Sex Differences in Visual STM. A Modular Approach to STM: Working Memory.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
PETscanning the Articulatory Loop. 5. Identifying and Classifying Concepts. Bottom-Up Views of Pattern Recognition.
Top-Down Processing in Pattern Recognition.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Subliminal Visual Priming. Recognizing Faces.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE: The Right Hemisphere and Self Recognition.
Concepts and Categories.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Causal Similarity, Perceptual Similarity and Childrens Categorization. 6. Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Long-Term Memory. Fundamental Distinctions.
Encoding Processes in Explicit Long-Term Remembering.
Retrieval Processes in Long-Term Memory.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Encoding, Retrieval, and the Hemispheres. Implicit Memory.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Conscious and Nonconscious Access to the Past. Memory Improvement
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Aging and Prospective Memory. 7. Memory Distortions. Sins of Memory.
Eyewitness Memory.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Children's Suggestibility. Illusory Memories.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Distinguishing Between True and False Memories. Sources of Memory Error.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Unconscious Plaigirism. The Recovered Memory Controversy.
8. Remembering the Personal Past. Everyday Memory.
Autobiographical Memory: Basic Issues and Methodology.
The Autobiographical Memory Retention Function.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Cross-Cultural and Sex Differences in Childhood Amnesia. Factors Affecting Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
PETScanning Autobiographical Memories. COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Involuntary Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories. Emotion and Autobiographical Memory.
Conclusion: Functions of Autobiographical Memory.
9. Knowledge Representation and Retrieval. Representing and Retrieving Categorical Knowledge.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Conscious and Non-Conscious Factors in Semantic Priming. Representing and Retrieving Propositions.
Representing and Retrieving Other Types of Knowledge.
Forgetting in Semantic Memory.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Age Differences in the TOT Experience. Analog Representation.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Brain Mechanisms in Visual Imagery and Perception. 10. Language I: General Principles and Speech Processing. What Is Language?
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE: Modularity of Lyrics and Tunes.
Phonology: The Basic Elements of Spoken Language.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Perception of Click Consonants. From Sounds to Words.
Syntax and Semantics: Putting Words Together.
Sentence Planning and Production.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS: Slips of the Tongue:
Unconscious Motivation? 11. Language II: Processing the Written Word. Reading.
Word Recognition.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Left-Hemisphere Connectivity and Dyslexia. Sentence-Level Processing.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Cross-Linguistic Differences in Cues for Sentence Comprehension. Discourse Comprehension.
Discourse Memory and Representation.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Priming of Associations in Text Rereading. Writing.
12. Problem Solving. What is a Problem?
Approaches to the Study of Problem Solving.
Problem Representation.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Stereotype Threat Hinders Problem Representation. Problem Solution.
Experts: Masters of Representation and Solution.
Insight and Creativity.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Insight and Intuition. COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Creativity and the Right Hemisphere. 13. Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making. Complex Thinking: Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making.
Reasoning.
COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE:
The Brain and Syllogistic Reasoning. Judgment.
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Comparing Intuitive and Analytic Judgments. Decision Making.
COGNITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Cultural Differences in Decision Making Overconfidence.
