314 Pages
by Psychology Press

314 Pages
by Psychology Press

312 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1962, the problems of cognition dealt with in this book include learning, perception, thinking, memory and linguistic behaviour. It is not a textbook in the ordinary sense, since it presents a particular approach to the subject through experimental psychology, and also, to some extent, through philosophy, cybernetics and logic. A brief mention is made of ethological and... Read more

Foreword.  1. The Nature of Cognition  2. Definitions in Cognition  3. The Conditioned Response  4. Learning and Theories of Learning  5. Hull’s Theory of Learning  6. Tolman’s Theory of Learning  7. Philosophy, Introspection and Cognition  8. Psychological Theory of Perception  9. Gestalt Theory  10. Empiricism and Transactionalism  11. Ethology and Cognition  12. A Theory Language for Cognition  13. Cybernetics and Cognition  14. Cognition and Programming a Computer  15. Memory  16. Thinking  17. Language  18. In Summary.  References.  Index.

Biography

Frank George