Cognitive psychology : a student's handbook / Michael W. Eysenck and Mark T. Keane.

By:

Eysenck, Michael W [author]

Contributor(s):

Keane, Mark T, 1961- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; London and New York : Psychology Press, 2020Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xxxii, 946 pages : color illustrations 24 cmISBN:

9781138482234 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

153 EYS 23

Contents:

Approaches to human cognition -- Basic processes in visual perception -- Object and face recognition -- Motion perception and action -- Attention and performance -- Learning, memory and forgetting -- Long-term memory systems -- Everyday memory -- Speech perception and reading -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Problem solving and expertise -- Judgement and decision-making -- Reasoning and hypothesis testing -- Cognition and emotion -- Consciousness.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	153 EYS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100608760

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Widely considered to be the most comprehensive and accessible textbook in the field of Cognitive Psychology Emphasis on applied cognition with 'in the real world' case studies and examples Comprehensive companion website including access to Primal Pictures' interactive 3D atlas of the brain, test simulations of key experiments, multiple choice questions, glossary flashcards and instructor PowerPoint slides Simple, clear pedagogy in every chapter to highlight key terms, case studies and further reading Updated references throughout the textbook to reflect the latest research

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of illustrations (p. xiv)
Preface (p. xxix)
Visual tour (how to use this book) (p. xxxi)
1 Approaches to human cognition (p. 1)
Introduction (p. 1)
Cognitive psychology (p. 3)
Cognitive neuropsychology (p. 7)
Cognitive neuroscience: the brain in action (p. 12)
Computational cognitive science (p. 26)
Comparisons of major approaches (p. 33)
Is there a replication crisis? (p. 34)
Outline of this book (p. 36)
Chapter summary (p. 37)
Further reading (p. 39)
Part I Visual perception and attention (p. 41)
2 Basic processes in visual perception (p. 43)
Introduction (p. 43)
Vision and the brain (p. 44)
Two visual systems: perception-action model (p. 55)
Colour vision (p. 64)
Depth perception (p. 71)
Perception without awareness: subliminal perception (p. 81)
Chapter summary (p. 90)
Further reading (p. 92)
3 Object and face recognition (p. 94)
Introduction (p. 94)
Pattern recognition (p. 95)
Perceptual organisation (p. 96)
Approaches to object recognition (p. 103)
Object recognition: top-down processes (p. 111)
Face recognition (p. 116)
Visual imagery (p. 130)
Chapter summary (p. 137)
Further reading (p. 139)
4 Motion perception and action (p. 140)
Introduction (p. 140)
Direct perception (p. 141)
Visually guided movement (p. 145)
Visually guided action: contemporary approaches (p. 152)
Perception of human motion (p. 157)
Change blindness (p. 163)
Chapter summary (p. 175)
Further reading (p. 176)
5 Attention and performance (p. 178)
Introduction (p. 178)
Focused auditory attention (p. 179)
Focused visual attention (p. 183)
Disorders of visual attention (p. 196)
Visual search (p. 200)
Cross-modal effects (p. 208)
Divided attention: dual-task performance (p. 212)
"Automatic" processing (p. 226)
Chapter summary (p. 231)
Further reading (p. 233)
Part II Memory (p. 237)
6 Learning, memory and forgetting (p. 239)
Introduction (p. 239)
Short-term vs long-term memory (p. 240)
Working memory: Baddeley and Hitch (p. 246)
Working memory: individual differences and executive functions (p. 254)
Levels of processing (and beyond) (p. 262)
Learning through retrieval (p. 265)
Implicit learning (p. 269)
Forgetting from long-term memory (p. 278)
Chapter summary (p. 293)
Further reading (p. 295)
7 Long-term memory systems (p. 296)
Introduction (p. 296)
Declarative memory (p. 300)
Episodic memory (p. 305)
Semantic memory (p. 313)
Non-declarative memory (p. 325)
Beyond memory systems and declarative vs non-declarative memory (p. 332)
Chapter summary (p. 340)
Further reading (p. 342)
8 Everyday memory (p. 344)
Introduction (p. 344)
Autobiographical memory: introduction (p. 346)
Memories across the lifetime (p. 351)
Theoretical approaches to autobiographical memory (p. 355)
Eyewitness testimony (p. 363)
Enhancing eyewitness memory (p. 372)
Prospective memory (p. 375)
Theoretical perspectives on prospective memory (p. 381)
Chapter summary (p. 389)
Further reading (p. 391)
Part III Language (p. 393)
9 Speech perception and reading (p. 403)
Introduction (p. 403)
Speech (and music) perception (p. 404)
Listening to speech (p. 408)
Context effects (p. 412)
Theories of speech perception (p. 417)
Cognitive neuropsychology (p. 429)
Reading: introduction (p. 432)
Word recognition (p. 436)
Reading aloud (p. 442)
Reading: eye-movement research (p. 453)
Chapter summary (p. 457)
Further reading (p. 460)
10 Language comprehension (p. 461)
Introduction (p. 461)
Parsing: overview (p. 462)
Theoretical approaches: parsing and prediction (p. 464)
Pragmatics (p. 478)
Individual differences: working memory capacity (p. 487)
Discourse processing: inferences (p. 490)
Discourse comprehension: theoretical approaches (p. 498)
Chapter summary (p. 510)
Further reading (p. 512)
11 Language production (p. 514)
Introduction (p. 514)
Basic aspects of speech production (p. 516)
Speech planning (p. 519)
Speech errors (p. 521)
Theories of speech production (p. 525)
Cognitive neuropsychology: speech production (p. 536)
Speech as communication (p. 543)
Writing: the main processes (p. 549)
Spelling (p. 558)
Chapter summary (p. 564)
Further reading (p. 566)
Part IV Thinking and reasoning (p. 569)
12 Problem solving and expertise (p. 573)
Introduction (p. 573)
Problem solving: introduction (p. 574)
Gestalt approach and beyond: insight and role of experience (p. 576)
Problem-solving strategies (p. 588)
Analogical problem solving and reasoning (p. 593)
Expertise (p. 600)
Chess-playing expertise (p. 601)
Medical expertise (p. 604)
Brain plasticity (p. 609)
Deliberate practice and beyond (p. 612)
Chapter summary (p. 619)
Further reading (p. 621)
13 Judgement and decision-making (p. 622)
Introduction (p. 622)
Judgement research (p. 623)
Theories of judgement (p. 633)
Decision-making under risk (p. 640)
Decision-making: emotional and social factors (p. 649)
Applied and complex decision-making (p. 654)
Chapter summary (p. 663)
Further reading (p. 665)
14 Reasoning and hypothesis testing (p. 666)
Introduction (p. 666)
Hypothesis testing (p. 667)
Deductive reasoning (p. 672)
Theories of "deductive" reasoning (p. 680)
Brain systems in reasoning (p. 690)
Informal reasoning (p. 694)
Are humans rational? (p. 701)
Chapter summary (p. 708)
Further reading (p. 710)
Part V Broadening horizons (p. 713)
15 Cognition and emotion (p. 715)
Introduction (p. 715)
Appraisal theories (p. 719)
Emotion regulation (p. 723)
Affect and cognition: attention and memory (p. 730)
Affect and cognition: judgement and decision-making (p. 738)
Judgement and decision-making: theoretical approaches (p. 750)
Anxiety, depression and cognitive biases (p. 753)
Cognitive bias modification and beyond (p. 761)
Chapter summary (p. 764)
Further reading (p. 766)
16 Consciousness (p. 767)
Introduction (p. 767)
Functions of consciousness (p. 768)
Assessing consciousness and conscious experience (p. 775)
Global workspace and global neuronal workspace theories (p. 783)
Is consciousness unitary? (p. 792)
Chapter summary (p. 798)
Further reading (p. 799)
Glossary (p. 801)
References (p. 824)
Author index (p. 915)
Subject index (p. 931)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael W. Eysenck is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also Professorial Fellow at Roehampton University. He is the best-selling author of several textbooks including Fundamentals of Cognition (2018), Memory (with Alan Baddeley and Michael C. Anderson, 2014) and Fundamentals of Psychology (2009).
Mark T. Keane is Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin, Ireland.