Cognitive Psychology

by Mehgan Andrade and Neil Walker

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Ultimately Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities – perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. It is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information.

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College of the Canyons
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Social Sciences, Psychology
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CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: History of Cognitive Psychology
  7. 1.1: Definition of Cognitive Psychology
  8. 1.2: Historical Roots- History of Cognition
  9. 1.3: Mnemonic Devices
  10. 1.4: Early Psychology - Structuralism and Functionalism
  11. 1.5: Contributions to Cognitive Psychology “Birth”
  12. 1.6: Gestalt Psychology
  13. 2: The Brain
  14. 2.1: The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
  15. 2.2: Lower-Level Structures of the Brain
  16. 2.3: Lobes - Cerebral Hemispheres and Lobes of the Brain
  17. 2.4: Limbic System and Other Brain Areas
  18. 2.5: Somatosensory and Motor Cortex
  19. 2.6: Hemispheres
  20. 2.7: Split-Brain Measures-severing the corpus callosum
  21. 2.8: Trauma
  22. 3: Methods of Research
  23. 3.1: A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
  24. 4: Memory
  25. 4.1: Memory and the Brain
  26. 4.2: Memory Processes
  27. 4.3: Encoding
  28. 4.4: Storage
  29. 4.5: Retrieval
  30. 4.6: Modal Model of Memory
  31. 4.7: Ebbinghaus
  32. 4.8: William James- isolating Short-term and Long-term memory
  33. 4.9: Serial Position Curve
  34. 4.10: Recency Effects and Primary Effects
  35. 4.11: Short Term Memory
  36. 5: Working Memory
  37. 5.1: The difference between Working Memory and Short-Term Memory
  38. 5.2: Components-Central Executive, Phonological Loop, Visuospatial Sketchpad
  39. 5.3: Long-Term Memory
  40. 5.4: Decay vs. Interference
  41. 5.5: Forgetting
  42. 5.6: Encoding Specificity Principle
  43. 5.7: Reconstruction of Memories
  44. 5.8: Autobiographical Memories
  45. 5.9: Amnesia
  46. 5.10: Eyewitness Memory
  47. 5.11: Attention Blindness
  48. 5.12: Weapon Focus
  49. 5.13: Cross –Race effect
  50. 5.14: Source Monitoring
  51. 5.15: Memory Techniques
  52. 6: Problem Solving
  53. 6.1: Types of Problems
  54. 6.2: Problem Solving Strategies
  55. 6.3: Means–Ends Analysis
  56. 6.4: Reasoning by Analogy
  57. 6.5: Transformation Problems
  58. 6.6: Incubation
  59. 6.7: Problem Solving Experts
  60. 6.8: Blocks to Problem Solving
  61. 7: Creativity
  62. 7.1: Creativity - What Is It?
  63. 7.2: Insight
  64. 8: Reasoning
  65. 8.1: Formal Reasoning
  66. 8.2: Deductive Reasoning + Inductive Reasoning
  67. 8.3: Propositional Reasoning
  68. 8.4: Venn Diagrams
  69. 8.5: Syllogisms
  70. 9: Decision Making
  71. 9.1: Representativeness
  72. 9.2: Availability
  73. 9.3: Anchoring
  74. 9.4: Framing
  75. 9.5: Sunk Cost Effect
  76. 9.6: Hindsight Bias
  77. 9.7: Illusory Correlations
  78. 9.8: Confirmation Bias
  79. 9.9: Belief Perseverance Bias
  80. 9.10: Overconfidence
  81. 10: Perception
  82. 10.1: Sensation vs. Perception
  83. 10.2: Classic View of Perception
  84. 10.3: Visual Illusions
  85. 10.4: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up (Conceptually-driven vs. Data-driven processing)
  86. 10.5: Multisensory Perception
  87. 10.6: Subliminal Perception
  88. 10.7: Synesthesia
  89. 10.8: McGurk Effect-Bimodal Speech Perception
  90. 11: Attention
  91. 11.1: What is Attention?
  92. 11.2: History of Attention
  93. 11.3: Selective Attention and Models of Attention
  94. 11.4: Divided Attention
  95. 11.5: Subitizing
  96. 11.6: Auditory Attention
  97. 12: Classification and Categorization with Pattern Recognition
  98. 12.1: Approaches to Pattern Recognition
  99. 12.2: Face Recognition Systems
  100. 12.3: Concepts and Categories
  101. Back Matter
  102. References
  103. Index
  104. Glossary
  105. Detailed Licensing