Cognition : exploring the science of the mind / Daniel Reisberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Part 1. Foundations of Cognitive Psychology -- 1. The Science of the Mind -- The Psychology of the Ordinary -- A Brief History -- Research in Cognitive Psychology--An Example -- Chapter Summary -- 2. The Neural Basis for Cognition -- Capgras Syndrome: An Initial Example -- The Principal Structures of the Brain -- The Visual System -- Chapter Summary -- Part 2. Learning about the World Around Us -- 3. Recognizing Objects in the World -- Visual Perception -- Object Recognition -- Word Recognition -- Feature Nets and Word Recognition -- Descendants of the Feature Net -- Different Objects, Different Recognition Systems? -- Top-down Influences on Object Recognition -- Chapter Summary -- 4. Paying Attention -- Selective Listening -- Perceiving and the Limits on Cognitive Capacity -- Divided Attention -- Practice -- Chapter Summary -- Part 3. Memory -- 5. The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System -- The Route into Memory -- A Closer Look at Working Memory -- Entering Long-Term Storage: The Role of the Intent to Learn -- The Role of Meaning and Memory Connections -- Organizing and Memorizing -- The Study of "Memory Acquisition" -- Chapter Summary -- 6. Interconnections between Acquisition and Retrieval -- Retrieval Hints and Cues -- Encoding Specificity -- Different Forms of Memory Testing -- Implicit Memory -- Theoretical Treatments of Implicit Memory -- Amnesia -- Chapter Summary -- 7. Memory Errors, Memory Gaps -- Memory Errors: Some Initial Examples -- The Potential Sources of Memory Error -- Evaluating Human Memory -- Autobiographical Memory -- Chapter Summary -- Part 4. Knowledge -- 8. Associative Theories of Long-Term Memory -- The Network Notion -- Evidence Favoring the Network Approach -- More Direct Tests of the Network Claims -- Retrieving Information from a Network -- Unpacking the Nodes -- Evaluating Network Models -- The Newest Chapter: Connectionism -- Chapter Summary -- 9. Concepts and Generic Knowledge -- Definitions: What Do We Know When We Know What a Dog Is? -- Prototypes and "Typicality" Effects -- Exemplars -- The Difficulties with Categorizing via Resemblance -- Concepts as "Implicit Theories" -- Chapter Summary -- 10. Language -- Phonology -- Words -- Syntax -- Sentence Parsing -- The Biology of Language -- Chapter Summary -- 11. Visual Knowledge -- Visual Imagery -- Long-Term Visual Memory -- The Diversity of Knowledge -- Chapter Summary -- Part 5. Thinking -- 12. Judgment: Drawing Conclusions from Evidence -- Availability -- Representativeness -- Support Theory -- Detecting Covariation -- Base Rates -- Assessing the Damage -- Chapter Summary -- 13. Reasoning: Thinking through the Implications of What You Know -- Confirmation and Disconfirmation -- Logic -- Mental Models -- Decision-Making -- Chapter Summary -- 14. Solving Problems -- General Problem-Solving Methods -- Relying on Past Knowledge -- Defining the Problem -- Creativity -- Chapter Summary -- 15. Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought -- The Cognitive Unconscious -- The Disadvantages of Unconscious Processing -- The Function of Consciousness -- Consciousness: What Is Left Unsaid -- Chapter Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Index.

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