Cognition in Action

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Psychology Press, 1994 - Psychology - 455 pages
This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the overall cognitive system. Through such examples of cognition in action, important components of the cognitive system are identified, and their interrelationships highlighted. Thus the text demonstrates that each part of the cognitive system can only be understood properly in its place in the functioning of the whole.; This edition features increased coverage of neuropsychological and connectionist approaches to cognition.
 

Contents

Sight and Sound in Recognising Patterns
31
Categorising Objects
65
31
71
Problems with Family Resemblances Typicality and Similarity
82
Category Knowledge and World Knowledge
88
Summary
95
Doing
125
Holding Information and Operations
155
Encoding Storing and Retrieving
245
Storage
256
Memory of Your Past in
281
Acquiring and Using Spatial Knowledge
309
Making Inferences and Solving Problems
335
Uncertainty and Risk in Making Decisions
367
References
397
Author Index
433

Planning and Producing Speech
183
Perceiving Understanding or Ignoring
211

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