Test Bank For Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience 3rd Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0840033559
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0840033550
• Author: E. BRUCE GOLDSTEIN

A lot goes on in your head when you’re doing something simple like remembering (or forgetting!) to do your next assignment. Bruce Goldstein explains all this activity going on in your mind in COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH, AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE. Concrete examples and illustrations help you understand both the scientific importance of theories and their relevance to you, including research-based suggestions for better ways to study.

Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
2. Cognitive Psychology: Studying the Mind
3. Abandoning the Study of the Mind
4. The Rebirth of the Study of the Mind
5. The Evolution of Cognitive Psychology
6. Something to Consider
7. Chapter Summary
8. Think about It
9. Key Terms
10. CogLab Experiments
11. Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
12. Levels of Analysis
13. Neurons: Basic Principles
14. Representation by Neural Firing
15. Localized Representation
16. Distributed Representation
17. Neural Networks
18. Something to Consider
19. Chapter Summary
20. Think about It
21. Key Terms
22. CogLab Experiments
23. Chapter 3: Perception
24. The Nature of Perception
25. Why Is It So Difficult to Design a Perceiving Machine?
26. Information for Human Perception
27. Conceptions of Object Perception
28. Neurons and Knowledge about the Environment
29. Perception and Action: Behavior
30. Perception and Action: Physiology
31. Something to Consider: Knowledge, Inference, and Prediction
32. Chapter Summary
33. Think about It
34. Key Terms
35. CogLab Experiments
36. Chapter 4: Attention
37. Attention as Information Processing
38. Processing Capacity and Perceptual Load
39. Directing Attention by Scanning a Scene
40. Outcomes of Attention
41. Divided Attention: Can We Attend to More Than One Thing at a Time?
42. Distractions
43. What Happens When We Don’t Attend?
44. Attention and Experiencing a Coherent World
45. Something to Consider
46. Chapter Summary
47. Think about It
48. Key Terms
49. CogLab Experiments
50. Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
51. The Modal Model of Memory
52. Sensory Memory
53. Short-Term Memory: Storage
54. Working Memory: Manipulating Information
55. Working Memory and the Brain
56. Something to Consider: Why Is More Working Memory Better?
57. Chapter Summary
58. Think about It
59. Key Terms
60. CogLab Experiments
61. Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
62. Comparing Short-Term and Long-Term Memory Processes
63. Episodic and Semantic Memory
64. Back to the Future
65. Procedural Memory, Priming, and Conditioning
66. Something to Consider
67. Chapter Summary
68. Think about It
69. Key Terms
70. CogLab Experiments
71. Chapter 7: LTM: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
72. Encoding: Getting Information into Long-Term Memory
73. Effective Studying
74. Retrieval: Getting Information Out of Memory
75. Consolidation: Establishing Memories
76. Reconsolidation: The Dynamics of Memory
77. Something to Consider: Alternative Explanations in Cognitive Psychology
78. Chapter Summary
79. Think about It
80. Key Terms
81. CogLab Experiments
82. Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
83. The Journey So Far
84. Autobiographical Memory: What Has Happened in My Life
85. Memory for “Exceptional” Events
86. The Constructive Nature of Memory
87. The Misinformation Effect
88. Creating Memories for Events in People’s Lives
89. Why Do People Make Errors in Eyewitness Testimony?
90. Something to Consider
91. Chapter Summary
92. Think about It
93. Key Terms
94. CogLab Experiments
95. Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
96. How Are Objects Placed into Categories?
97. Is There a Psychologically “Basic” Level of Categories?
98. Representing Relationships Among Categories: Semantic Networks
99. The Connectionist Approach
100. Four Proposals about How Concepts Are Represented in the Brain
101. Something to Consider: The Hub and Spoke Model
102. Chapter Summary
103. Think about It
104. Key Terms
105. CogLab Experiments
106. Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
107. Imagery in the History of Psychology
108. Imagery and Perception: Do They Share the Same Mechanisms?
109. Imagery and the Brain
110. Using Imagery to Improve Memory
111. Something to Consider
112. Chapter Summary
113. Think about It
114. Key Terms
115. CogLab Experiments
116. Chapter 11: Language
117. What Is Language?
118. Understanding Words: A Few Complications
119. Understanding Ambiguous Words
120. Understanding Sentences
121. Understanding Text and Stories
122. Having Conversations
123. Something to Consider
124. Chapter Summary
125. Think about It
126. Key Terms
127. CogLab Experiments
128. Chapter 12: Problem Solving & Creativity
129. What Is a Problem?
130. The Gestalt Approach
131. The Information-Processing Approach
132. Using Analogies to Solve Problems
133. How Experts Solve Problems
134. Creative Problem Solving
135. Creativity and the Brain
136. Something to Consider
137. Chapter Summary
138. Think about It
139. Key Terms
140. Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
141. Inductive Reasoning: Making Judgments from Observations
142. Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic
143. Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives
144. Something to Consider
145. Postscript: Donders Returns
146. Chapter Summary
147. Think about It
148. Key Terms
149. CogLab Experiments
150. Glossary
151. References
152. Name Index
153. Subject Index

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