1. Cognitive Psychology : An Introduction

Thinking About Thinking

Memory and Cognition Defined

An Introductory History of Cognitive Psychology

Anticipations of Psychology

Early Psychology

Behaviorism and Neobehaviorism

Dissatifaction with Behaviorism: The Winds of Change

Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing

The New Direction

The Assumptions of Cognitive Psychology

2. The Cognitive Science Approach

Guiding Principles

Themes

Measuring Information Processes

Getting Started

Time and Accuracy Measures

Guiding Analogies

The Information-Processing Approach

The Standard Theory

A Process Model

The Strict Information Processing Approach

Some Difficulties

The Modern Cognitive Approach: Cognitive Science

Updating the Standard Theory

Fixing the Narrowness

Neurocognition: The Brain and Cognition Together

Basic Neurology

Brain Anatomy

Principles of Functioning

Split Brain Research and Lateralization

Methods of Investigation

Neural Net Models: Connectionism

3. Perception and Pattern Recognition

Visual Perception

Gathering Visual Information

Visual Sensory Memory

The Early parts of a Fixation

A Summary for Visual Sensory Memory

Trans-saccadic Memory

Pattern Recognition: Written Language

Gestalt Grouping Principles

The Template Approach

Visual Feature Detection

Beyond Features: Conceptually Driven Pattern Recognition

Connectionist Modeling

Object Recognition and Agnosia

Recognition by Components

Agnosia

Implications for Cognitive Science

Auditory Perception

Auditory Sensory Memory

Auditory Pattern Recognition

4. Attention

Multiple Meaning of Attention

Basics of Attention

Basic Input Attentional Processes

Alertness and Arousal

Orienting Response and Attention Capture

Spotlight Attention and Visual Search

Contrasting Input and Controlled Attention

Hemineglect: An Attention Deficit

Controlled, Voluntary Attention

Selective Attention and the Cocktail Party Effect

Selection Models

Attention as a Mental Resource

Automatic and Conscious Processing Theories

A Synthesis for Attention and Automaticity

Disadvantages of Automaticity

5. Short-Term Working Memory

Short-Term Memory: A Limited Capacity Bottleneck

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

Forgetting from Short-Term Memory

Short-Term Memory Retrieval

Serial Position Effects

Short-Term Memory Scanning: The Sternberg Task

Working Memory

The Components of Working Memory

The Central Executive

The Phonological Loop

The Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

The Episodic Buffer

Assessing Working Memory

The Dual Task Method

Working Memory Span

The Role of Working Memory in Cognition

Working Memory and Attention

Working Memory and Long-Term Memory

Working Memory and Reasoning

Sometimes Small Working Memory Spans are Better

6. Learning and Remembering

Preliminary Issues

Mnemonic Devices

The Ebbinghaus Tradition of Memory Research

Metamemory

Storing Information in Episodic Memory

Rehearsal

Frequency of Rehearsal

Two Kinds of Rehearsal

Depth of Processing

Challenges to Depth of Processing

Generation and Enactment

Organization in Storage

Imagery

Emotion and Survival Value

Context and Encoding Specificity

Retrieving Episodic Information

Decay

Interference

Retrieval Failure

Retrieval Cues

Amnesia and Implicit Memory

Dissociation of Episodic and Semantic Memory

Anterograde Amnesia

Implicit and Explicit Memory

7. Knowing

Semantic Memory

The Collins and Quillian ( and Loftus) Model

Smith's Feature Comparison Model

Empirical Tests of Semantic Memory Models

Semantic Relatedness

Priming in Semantic Memory

Nuts and Bolts of Priming Tasks

Empirical Demonstrations of Priming

Priming in Other Tasks

Automatic and Controlled Priming

Priming Is an Implicit Process

Schemata and Scripts

Bartlett’s Research

Schemata

Scripts

Evidence of Scripts

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