Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 1
Introduction

Introduction

Cognitive psychology is concerned with how the mind represents and uses information about the outside world.
The study how humans

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 3
Attention and consciousness

Attention and consciousness have the idea of selection in common.
We attend to particular aspects of information hitting our senses and seem consciously aware of only a limited view of the world at any one time.

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 5
Long-term memory

Three important aspects of long-term memory processes:

• Long-term memory processes are not disturbed throughout the brain. Damage to particular areas within the temporal lobes will cause profound long-term memory loss. Particular brain regions are responsible for long-term memory function.
• Long-term memory encompasses a number of different

Cognitive Psychology 
Chapter 7
Concepts and knowledge representation

Introduction

Concepts: mental representations of classes of items.
When we treat

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 9
Problem solving

Problem: a situation in which you have a goal but do not know how to achieve it.
Thinking: a process of mental exploration of possible actions and states of the world.

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 11
Reasoning

Reasoning: the cognitive process of deriving new information from old information.
People who can correctly derive new information by reasoning do well on tests of general ability or intelligence and in turn do better in education and in the occupational world.

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 13
Language comprehension

How we understand speech and written language.
Understanding requires accessing semantic information and appreciating the meaning of words,

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