1st Edition
Knowledge in Minds Individual and Collective Processes in Cognition
Preface. Section One: Knowledge in Mind 1. Mind Acknowledged 2. Encoding General Knowledge 3. Dual Encoding and Imagery 4. Symbol Processing Architectures: Production Systems 5. Non-symbolic Architectures: Connectionism Section Two: Memory Dynamics and the Accumulation of Knowledge 6. Accumulative Memory 7. Accumulative Memory: Developmental Perspectives 8. Cognition and Affect Section Three: Acquiring and Manipulating Knowledge 9. Management of Text Comprehension 10. Evaluating and Manipulating Knowledge Section Four: Knowledge in Minds 11. Social Cognition 12. Cultural Transmission of Knowledge: Formal Education 13. Cultural Transmission of Knowledge: Historical Change 14. Evolutionary Constraints and the Modern Mind. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
A. L. Wilkes was, at the time of original publication, Professor of Psychology at University of Dundee, UK.
Reviews for the original edition:
“This is a fascinating book, quite unlike anything else in the textbook literature of cognitive psychology. It does what very few other texts attempt: to set the study of cognition in its wider context. In doing so, it raises issues which are otherwise liable to be skirted round, and brings to readers ideas and information which they would probably never have encountered.” – K. I. Manktelow, University of Wolverhampton, UK
“This is a well-written book covering much ground not usually touched on by texts in cognitive psychology. It is also well aimed at final-year psychology students, and should be of interest, as a wide-ranging background survey to postgraduate students of cognitive psychology and cognitive science.” – David Over, University of Sunderland, UK
