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  • Summary with the book: A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason
  • Summary with the book: Attention: Theory and Practice by Johnson & Proctor
  • Summary with the book: Cognition by Chun and Most
  • Summary with the book: Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami
  • Summary with the book: Cognitive development: The learning brain by Goswami
  • Summary with the book: Cognitive Psychology by Goldstein & Van Hooff
  • Summary with the book: Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind by Reisberg
  • Summary with the book: Consciousness: An Introduction - Blackmore, Troscianko
  • Summary with the book: Critical Thinking by Moore and Parker - 13th edition
  • Summary with the book: Emotion Science by Fox
  • Summary with the book: Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach by Scandura
  • Summary with the book: Sensation and Perception by Wolfe a.o.
  • Summary with the book: Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Klein
  • Summary with the book: The Science of Consciousness by Harley
  • Summary with the book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman

About Cognitive psychology and the mind

  • Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes, such as thinking, memory, attention, and perception. It investigates how people acquire, process, and store information. This field aims to understand how the mind works and how it influences our behavior.

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Summary of A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summary of A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters

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  • Chapter 1 - What are the nature and varieties of human error?
  • Chapter 2 - Plans lead to Actions and Consequences
  • Chapter 3 - Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances
  • Chapter 4 - Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded
  • Chapter 5 - Individual Differences
  • Chapter 6 - SIML in the Courtroom
  • Chapter 7- The New Freudian Slip
  • Chapter 8 - Failures in planning
  • Chapter 9 - Violations
  • Chapter 10 - Organizational Accidents
  • Chapter 11 - Resisting Change in Organizational Culture
  • Chapter 12 - Medical Error
  • Chapter 13 - Disclosing Error
  • Chapter 14 - Looking back
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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition by Attention: Theory and Practice by Johnson & Proctor

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition by Attention: Theory and Practice by Johnson & Proctor

Summaries per chapter with Attention: Theory and Practice

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  • What is the history of research into attention? - Chapter 1
  • What is the process of information processing in the brain? - Chapter 2
  • Which visual stimuli are processed by the brain and how? - Chapter 3
  • How do different senses or modalities work together? - Chapter 4
  • When and how does inhibition of attention take place? - Chapter 5
  • How can we divide our attention? - Chapter 6
  • What does memory have to do with attention? - Chapter 7
  • How can research into attention be applied? - Chapter 8
  • How can mental workload and situation awareness be measured? - Chapter 9
  • Which individual differences are important for attention? - Chapter 10
  • What is the cognitive neuroscience of attention? - Chapter 11
  • Which disorders are related to attention? -
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Summary of Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami - 2nd edition - Exclusive

Summary of Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami - 2nd edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain

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  • Chapter 0 - What is Goswami's view on cognitive development?
  • Chapter 1 - What kinds of knowledge are central to cognitive development?
  • Chapter 2 - How does perception develop?
  • Chapter 3 - How do children learn?
  • Chapter 4 - How are social cognition, mental representation and theory of mind related?
  • Chapter 5 - How are conceptual development and the biological world related?
  • Chapter 6 - How does language develop cognitively?
  • Chapter 7 - How are causal reasoning and the human brain related?
  • Chapter 8 - How does memory develop?
  • Chapter 9 - How do metacognition, reasoning and executive function develop?
  • Chapter 10 - How do reading and mathematical skills develop?
  • Chapter 11 - What theories of cognitive development are there?
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Summaries per chapter with the 7th edition of Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind by Reisberg

Summaries per chapter with the 7th edition of Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind by Reisberg

Summaries per chapter with Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind

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  • Chapter 1 - What is cognitive psychology?
  • Chapter 2 - What is the neural basis of cognition?
  • Chapter 3 - How does visual perception work?
  • Chapter 4 - How do we recognize objects?
  • Chapter 5 - What is attention?
  • Chapter 6 - What is memory?
  • Chapter 7 - What is the relationship between acquisition and the retrieval of information?
  • Chapter 8 - How do we remember complex events?
  • Chapter 9 - What are concepts?
  • Chapter 10 - What is language?
  • Chapter 11 - What is visual imagery?
  • Chapter 12 - How does judgement and reasoning work?
  • Chapter 13 - What are problem solving strategies and what is intelligence?
  • Chapter 14 - How do conscious and unconscious processes proceed?
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Summary of Critical Thinking by Moore and Parker - 13th edition - Exclusive

Summary of Critical Thinking by Moore and Parker - 13th edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with Critical Thinking

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  • Chapter 1 - Why is critical thinking important?
  • Chapter 2 - What two ways of reasoning are there?
  • Chapter 3 - How do you write a good text?
  • Chapter 4 - When is something credible?
  • Chapter 5 - How does persuasion work?
  • Chapter 6 - How does relevance work?
  • Chapter 7 - What are inductive thinking errors?
  • Chapter 8 - What formal errors of thought are there?
  • Chapter 9 - Which deductive arguments are there?
  • Chapter 10 - What other deductive arguments are there?
  • Chapter 11 - What is Inductive Reasoning?
  • Chapter 12 - What is the moral, legal, and ethical reasoning?
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Summary of Emotion Science by Fox - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summary of Emotion Science by Fox - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with Emotion Science

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  • What does the science of emotion look like? - Chapter 1
  • How can emotions, moods and feelings be measured? - Chapter 2
  • What are the individual differences in emotional responses and emotion regulation? - Chapter 3
  • What do categorical approaches to the structure of affect look like? - Chapter 4
  • What do dimensional approaches to the structure of affect look like? - Chapter 5
  • What relationships exist between affect and cognition? - Chapter 6
  • Which affect-cognitive relationships are related to memory? - Chapter 7
  • What are possible individual differences in the processing of emotions? - Chapter 8
  • What can cause emotional disorders? - Chapter 9
  • How can resistance and well-being be influenced? - Chapter 10
  • What are the theoretical frameworks of emotion and cognition? - Chapter 11
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Summaries of Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach by Scandura - 3rd edition
Summary of Sensation and Perception by Wolfe a.o. - 6th edition - Exclusive

Summary of Sensation and Perception by Wolfe a.o. - 6th edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with Sensation and Perception

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  • Chapter 1 - What do the processes of sensation and perception entail?
  • Chapter 2 - How can our eyes perceive light?
  • Chapter 3 - How do people perceive spatial figures?
  • Chapter 4 - How does object recognition work?
  • Chapter 5 - How do we observe color?
  • Chapter 6 - How does the perception of space and binocular vision work?
  • Chapter 7 - How does attention and the perception of a scene work?
  • Chapter 8 - How does the perception of movement work?
  • Chapter 9 - What is sound and how do we perceive it?
  • Chapter 10 - How do we locate sound?
  • Chapter 11 - How do we perceive music and speech?
  • Chapter 12 - What does vestibular sensation entail?
  • Chapter 13 - How do we perceive touch?
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Summary of Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Klein - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summary of Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Klein - 1st edition - Exclusive

Summaries per chapter with Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

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  • Chapter 2 - What sparks the passion for procedures?
  • Chapter 3 - How can the invisible be seen?
  • Chapter 4 - How biased is our thinking?
  • Chapter 5 - How do intuition and analysis compare or differ?
  • Chapter 6 - How can intuition and analysis be blended to make rapid decisions?
  • Chapter 7 - Why do experts sometimes commit errors?
  • Chapter 8 - How can decisions be automated?
  • Chapter 9 - When is more less?
  • Chapter 10 - When is practice a vice?
  • Chapter 11 - What are the limits of feedback?
  • Chapter 12 - How can one connect the dots when it comes to sensemaking?
  • Chapter 13 - Do we think like computers?
  • Chapter 14 - When is it time for moving targets?
  • Chapter 15 - What are
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Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman - 1st edition

Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman - 1st edition

What are the two systems? - Part 1

What is the distinction between System 1 and System 2? – Chapter 1

When looking at a picture of a blonde woman with an angry expression on her face, you immediately notice her having blonde hair and being angry. You get the feeling she is about to say something negative in a loud voice. This premonition of her future behaviour arose effortlessly and automatically. This is an example

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