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• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 What is cognitive psychology?
• Introduction
• What methods have been proposed to study the human mind?
• Introspection
• Observation and Manipulation
• Theory Building, VERIFICATION, AND Falsification
• Contemporary cognitive psychology
• Experimental Cognitive Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Computational Cognitive Science
• Combining Approaches
• Growing Interest in Individual Differences
• Use of Big Data
• References
• 2 Visual perception
• Introduction
• From sensation to perception
• Sensation vs. perception
• Perceptual organisation
• The gestalt laws
• Figure–ground segregation
• Findings
• Pattern recognition
• Template theories
• Feature Theories
• Top-Down Processes
• Visual object recognition
• Recognition-by-components theory
• Does viewpoint affect object Recognition?
• Disorders of Object Recognition
• Face recognition
• Face recognition by eyewitnesses
• Face vs. object Recognition
• Face blindness: Prosopagnosia
• Face recognition network in the brain
• Models of face Recognition
• Super-Recognisers
• Perception and action
• Two visual systems: perception and action
• In sight but out of mind
• Inattentional blindness
• Change blindness
• What causes change blindness?
• Does perception require conscious awareness?
• Empirical evidence for unconscious processing
• Issues
• Evaluation
• References
• 3 Attention and performance
• Introduction
• Selective auditory attention
• Where is the Bottleneck?
• Recent Developments
• Selective visual attention
• POSNER’S Paradigm
• Spotlight, Zoom Lens, or Split?
• What is Selected?
• What Happens to Unattended Stimuli?
• Cross-Modal Effects
• Visual search
• The Guided Search Model
• Disorders of attention
• Neglect and Extinction
• Multitasking
• Why do We Multitask?
• Practice and Dual-Task Performance
• Does Practice Make 100% Perfect?
• Attention and consciousness
• Consciousness
• The Relationship Between Attention and Consciousness
• Controlling Actions: Unconscious Processing and Free Will
• References
• 4 Short-term and working memory
• Introduction
• Short-term memory
• The Atkinson and Shiffrin Model of Memory
• Short-Term Memory Capacity
• Duration
• Short-Term vs. Long-Term Memory
• Working memory
• The Baddeley and Hitch Working Memory Model
• Phonological Loop
• Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
• Central Executive
• Episodic Buffer
• Unitary-Store Alternative
• Working memory capacity
• Measuring Working Memory Capacity
• Working Memory Capacity and Intelligence
• Can Working Memory Capacity be Trained?
• References
• 5 Learning and long-term memory
• Introduction
• Implicit vs. explicit learning
• Assessing implicit learning
• Specific characteristics of implicit learning
• Neuroscientific evidence
• Conclusions
• Variables affecting explicit learning
• Levels of processing
• Distinctiveness
• The testing effect
• Long-term memory
• Declarative vs. non-declarative memory
• Semantic memory
• Episodic memory
• Amnesia
• Retrograde and anterograde amnesia
• What remains intact?
• Episodic memory is particularly vulnerable
• Semantic memory without episodic memory?
• Forgetting and misremembering
• The forgetting curve
• Origins of forgetting
• Interference effects
• Recall vs. recognition
• Consolidation
• Misremembering
• References
• 6 Knowledge in semantic memory
• Introduction
• Concepts
• The Common Feature Approach
• Prototype Approach
• Exemplar Approach
• Knowledge-Based Approach
• Embodied Cognition Approach
• Integration: the Hub-and-Spoke-Model
• Conclusion
• Organisation of concepts
• Hierarchies of Concepts
• A Network of Concepts
• Schemas and stereotypes
• From Concepts to Propositions
• Combining Propositions Into Events and Schemas
• Stereotypes
• References
• 7 Everyday memory
• Introduction
• Traditional Memory Research Vs. Everyday Memory Research
• Chapter Structure
• Autobiographical memory
• Autobiographical Vs. Episodic Memory
• How Good Is Autobiographical Memory?
• Flashbulb Memories
• Recovered Memories
• Memories Across The Lifespan
• Self-Memory System Model
• Eyewitness testimony
• Post-Event Misinformation Effect
• Source Misattribution
• Remembering Faces
• Confirmation Bias
• Violence And Anxiety
• Ageing And Eyewitness Testimony
• Cognitive Interview
• Self-Administered Interview
• Prospective memory
• Prospective Memory Vs. Retrospective Memory
• Stages In Prospective Memory
• Event-Based VS. Time-Based Prospective Memory
• Prospective Memory As Part Of Future Thinking
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder And Checking Behaviour
• Improving Prospective Memory
• References
• 8 Language
• Introduction
• Chapter organisation
• Speaking
• Stages of speech production
• Tip-of-the-tongue state
• Speech planning
• Speech errors
• Speech disorders and aphasia
• Speech perception
• Models of speech perception
• Multi-Modal Aspects of Speech Perception
• Cognitive neuropsychology of speech perception
• Reading
• IT’S IN THE Eyes
• Sound as well as vision?
• Three routes from orthography to phonology
• Dyslexia
• From words to conversations
• Easy and difficult words
• Sentence parsing: who does what to whom?
• From sentences to conversation
• Common ground
• References
• 9 Problem solving
• Introduction
• Problem-solving strategies
• Algorithms Vs. Heuristics
• Heuristics Used In Problem Solving
• Does insight exist?
• Insight Vs. Non-Insight Problems
• How Special Are Insight Problems?
• Facilitating Insight With Hints
• Incubation And Sleep
• How useful is past experience?
• Expertise
• Deliberate Practice
• Functional Fixedness
• Mental Set
• Ways To Counteract Functional Fixedness And Mental Set
• Hypothesis testing
• Two Ways To Test Hypotheses
• Motivated Reasoning
• Problem solutions
• References
• 10 Judgement, decision making, and reasoning
• Introduction
• Judgement
• Likelihood depends on the availability of supporting information
• Base rate information
• Why we keep using heuristics
• Dual-process model
• Decision making
• Losses and gains
• Emotional factors
• Social context
• Study context
• Reasoning
• Syllogistic reasoning
• Conditional Reasoning
• Wason selection task
• Theories of reasoning
• Mental models theory
• Informal reasoning
• Are humans rational?
• Why people are better than researchers claim
• Evidence that human reasoning is not optimal
• What is rationality?
• Individual differences: intelligence
• References
• 11 Cognition and emotion
• Introduction
• The Structure of Emotions
• The Components of Emotions
• Emotion, Mood, Personality, and Affect
• Cognitive processes in emotions
• Stimulus Appraisal
• Physiological Processes in Emotions
• Understanding Emotions
• Emotion Regulation
• How does emotion influence cognition?
• Attention
• Interpretation Bias
• Memory
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Moral Dilemmas
• References
• Glossary
• Name index
• Subject index