Introduction - summary of chapter 1 of Cognitive Psychology by Gilhooly, K & Lyddy, F, M
Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 1
Introduction
Introduction
Cognitive psychology is concerned with how the mind represents and
........Read moreThis is a summary of Cognitive psychology by Gilhooly & Lyddy. This book is about how cognition works and theories about cognitive psychology. The book is used in the first year of the study of psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
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Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 1
Introduction
Cognitive psychology is concerned with how the mind represents and
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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.
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Chapter 4
Sensory, short-term and working memory
Memory
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Chapter 5
Long-term memory
Three important aspects of long-term memory processes:
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Chapter 6
Learning and forgetting
Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge which can be retrieved to help us meet our goals.
Encoding, storage and retrieval are the three main stages involved in learning and in remembering.
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Chapter 7
Concepts and knowledge representation
Concepts:
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Chapter 8
Motor control and action
How our body achieves our goals.
The description of motor control and action in three parts:
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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.
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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.
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Chapter 12
Language production
Syntax: to rules governing the ways words can be combined
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Chapter 13
Language comprehension
How we understand speech and written language.
Understanding
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Chapter 14
Cognition and emotion
Skin conductance response: (or galvanic skin response GSR) reflects changes in the skin’s ability to conduct electricity in the presence of an emotion-eliciting stimulus.
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