Cognitive Psychology
eBook - PDF

Cognitive Psychology

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cognitive Psychology

About this book

Cognitive Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in cognitive psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements on a cognitive psychology course.

The Companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course, providing:

- Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid lecture notes, seminars and written assignments

- Key summaries of the approach taken by the main cognitive psychology textbooks

- Guidance on the essential study skills required

- Help with developing critical thinking

- Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond textbooks

- Pointers to success in course exams

- A tutor?s-eye view of what course examiners are looking for

- An insider?s view of what key course concepts are really all about

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The basics of cognitive psychology
  5. 1.1 - Definition
  6. 1.2 - Cognitive psychology and related disciplines/theories
  7. 1.3 - History of cognitive psychology
  8. 1.4 - Founding figures and their core ideas
  9. 1.5 - Thinking like a cognitive psychologist
  10. 1.6 - Learning outcomes and assessment
  11. 1.7 - Running themes
  12. Part II: Course companion to the curriculum
  13. 2.1 - Visual processing/perception
  14. 2.2 - Object recognition
  15. 2.3 - Speech/word recognition
  16. 2.4 - Attention
  17. 2.5 - Introduction to memory, the multistore model, encoding and retrieval
  18. 2.6 - Working memory model
  19. 2.7 - Episodic and semantic memory
  20. 2.8 - Learning and memory
  21. 2.9 - Speech perception and reading
  22. 2.10 - Language comprehension
  23. 2.11 - Language (speech) production
  24. 2.12 - Problem-solving
  25. 2.13 - Judgements and decision making
  26. 2.14 - Reasoning and deduction
  27. Part III: Study and revision skills
  28. 3.1 - Introduction
  29. 3.2 - How to get the most out of your lectures
  30. 3.3 - How to make the most of seminars
  31. 3.4 - Essay writing tips
  32. 3.5 - Revision hints and tips
  33. 3.6 - Exam tips
  34. 3.7 - Tips on interpreting essay and exam questions
  35. 3.8 - Summary
  36. Glossary
  37. References