1st Edition
Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing An Introduction
592 Pages
by
Psychology Press
592 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1979. Basic research, at its essence, is exploration of the unknown. When it is successful, isolated pieces of reality are deciphered and described. Most of the history of an empirical discipline consists of probes into this darkness-some bold, others careful and systematic. Most of these efforts are initially incorrect. At best, they are distant approximations to a reality that... Read more
1. SCIENCE AND PARADIGMS:THE PREMISES OF THIS BOOK 2. PSYCHOLOGY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE INFORMATION-PROCESSING PARADIGM 3. CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER DISCIPLINES TO INFORMATION-PROCESSING PSYCHOLOGY 4. THE INFORMATION-PROCESSING PARADIGM 5. REACTION TIME: THE MEASURE OF AN EMERGING PARADIGM 6. CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTION 7. SOME STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF HUMAN MEMORY: THE EPISODIC MEMORY SYSTEM AND ITS PARTS 8. FLEXIBILITY IN THE EPISODIC MEMORY SYSTEM: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR MUL TISTORE MODELS 9. SEMANTIC MEMORY 10. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 11. COMPREHENSION FROM THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC VIEWPOINT 12. DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND GLOBAL MODELS OF COMPREHENSION 13. PATTERN RECOGNITION 14. EPILOGUE: CRITIQUES OF THE PARADIGM
Biography
Roy Lachman and Janet L. Lachman University of Houston, Earl. C.Butterfield University of Kansas Medical Center
