Cognitive Psychology

" This is a very thorough and complete text that is very well written. I was particularly impressed that the book incorporated and integrated the literatures on neuroscience and individual differences ."

-- Randall Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology

As with his best-selling First Edition , Ronald T. Kellogg seeks to provide students with a synthesis of cognitive psychology at its best, encapsulating relevant background, theory, and research within each chapter. Understanding cognitive psychology now requires a deeper understanding of the brain than was true in the past. In his thoroughly revised Second Edition , the author highlights the tremendous contributions from the neurosciences, most notably neuroimaging, in recent years and approaches cognition in the context of both its development and its biological, bodily substrate.

An Instructor's Manual on CD-ROM is available to qualified adopters.

As with the First Edition, the author provides students with a synthesis of cognitive psychology at its best. The thoroughly revised Second Edition includes: chapters on the development of language, memory and perception; the contribution made by neuroscience and neuroimaging in recent years; and coverage on memory distortions.



The book is divided into six sections: Part One introduces the discipline of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience; Part Two covers basic cognitive operations of perception, attention and memory; Part Three addresses learning, knowing and remembering; Part Four covers language; and Part Five explores thinking skills and concludes the book with an integrative chapter on intelligence, showing the centrality of cognitive psychology to a highly visible and important arena of psychology as a whole.



`Kellogg's textbook provides outstanding coverage of contemporary cognitive psychology. I especially welcomed chapters on Cognitive Neuroscience, providing neural underpinnings of cognition, and Intelligence. The latter topic is rarely included in books on cognition because the study of intelligence developed in a somewhat separate tradition from experimental cognitive psychology. Yet clearly intelligence should be considered as part of cognitive psychology, too. The coverage in the book is comprehensive and authoritative, but the chapters I read are also quite interesting and accessible. This book should be widely used as a text and a reference work' - Henry L Roediger, III

Preface
Part 1 Scope & Methods
1. Introduction
Defining Cognitive Psychology. Core Concepts. Research Methods. Overview of the Text. Summary. Key Terms
2. Cognitive Neuroscience
Mind & Brain. Functional Neuroanatomy. Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience. Connectionist Models. Summary. Key Terms
Part II: Fundamentals of Cognition
3. Perception
Visual Consciousness. Pattern Recognition. Face Perception. Speech Perception. Summary. Key Terms
4. Attention
Filter Theories. Capacity Theories. Automatic Processes. Visual Attention. Summary. Key Terms
5. Memory
Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval. Sensory Memory. Short-Term versus Long-Term memory. Working Memory. Summary. Key Terms
Part III: Learning, Knowing, & Remembering
6. Episodic Memory
Types of Long-Term Memory. Encoding & Storing Events. Retrieval Processes. Summary. Key Terms.
7. Distortions of Memory
Reconstructive Retrieval. Encoding Distortions. Source Monitoring. Eyewitess Testimony. Summary. Key Terms.
8. Semantic Memory
Representing Concepts. Propositions & Images. Using Semantic Memory. Summary. Key Terms
9. Learning Concepts & Skills
Concept Learning. Learning Processes. Implicit Learning. Acquiring Expertise. Summary. Key Terms
Part IV: Knowing and Using Language
10. Language
Defining Language. Representations of Language. Thought & Language. Summary. Key Terms.
11. Language Production
Speech Production. Sentence Generation. Writing. Summary. Key Terms.
12. Language Comprehension
Word Recognition. Sentence Comprehension. Discourse Comprehension. Summary. Key Terms.
Part V: Thinking
13. Problem Solving
Types of Thinking. A General Model of Problem Solving. Creativity. Summary. Key Terms
14. Reasoning & Decision Making
Syllogistic Reasoning. Conditional Reasoning. Decision Making. Summary. Key Terms.
15. Intelligence
Defining Intelligence. Genetic & Environmental Influences. Sex Differences. Summary. Key Terms.
Glossary
References
Index