Cognitive psychology

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What is cognitive psychology?

Cognitive psychology focuses on study of higher mental functions with particular emphasis on the ways in which people acquire knowledge and use it to shape and understand their experience in the world. This figures indicates key foci of cognitive psychology: [1]

Organization

  1. Information-Processing Stages
    • Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
    • Chapter 2: Pattern Recognition
    • Chapter 3: Attention
    • Chapter 4: Short-Term Working Memory
    • Chapter 5: Long-Term Memory
  2. Representation and Organization of Knowledge
    • Chapter 6: Memory Codes
    • Chapter 7: Visual Images
    • Chapter 8: Categorization
    • Chapter 9: Semantic Organization
  3. Complex Cognitive Skills
    • Chapter 10: Language
    • Chapter 11: Comprehension and Memory for Text
    • Chapter 12: Problem Solving
    • Chapter 13: Expertise and Creativity
    • Chapter 14: Decision Making

Lessons

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Resources

Textbooks

Cognitive Psychology, Sixth Edition Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg 643 pg.

Foundations of Cognitive Psychology, Core Readings Daniel J. Levitin 813 pg.

Cognitive science : an introduction to the study of mind Jay Friedenberg, Gordon Silverman 561 pg.

Cognitive Psychology, Third Edition E. Bruce Goldstein

References

  1. ↑ Solso, R. L. (1991). Cognitive psychology (3rd ed.), pp. 7, 289, 290. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon

See also

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