Cognitive psychology and the brain: The best textbooks summarized

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  • Summary with the book: Attention: Theory and Practice by Johnson and Proctor - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Cognition by Chun and Most - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami - 2nd edition
  • Summary with the book: Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind by Reisberg - 7th edition
  • Summary with the book: Consciousness: An Introduction by Blackmore and Troscianko - 3rd edition
  • Summary with the book: Critical Thinking by Moore and Parker - 13th edition
  • Summary with the book: Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach by Scandura - 3rd edition
  • Summary with the book: Sensation and Perception by Wolfe a.o. - 6th edition
  • Summary with the book: The Science of Consciousness by Harley
  • Summary with the book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman - 1st edition

About Cognitive psychology and the brain

  • Cognitive psychology studies mental processes like thinking, memory, and language, while the brain is the physical organ responsible for these cognitive functions.
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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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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? - Chapter 12
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Summary of Cognition by Chun and Most - first edition

Summary of Cognition by Chun and Most - first edition

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Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami

Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Goswami

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?
What is Goswami's view on cognitive development? - Chapter 0
What kinds of knowledge are central to cognitive development? - Chapter 1
How does perception develop? - Chapter 2
How do children learn? - Chapter 3
How are social cognition, mental representation and theory of mind related? - Chapter 4
How are conceptual development and the biological world related? - Chapter 5
How does language develop cognitively? - Chapter 6
How are causal reasoning and the human brain related? - Chapter 7
How does memory develop? - Chapter 8
How do metacognition, reasoning and executive function develop? - Chapter 9
How do reading and mathematical skills develop? - Chapter 10
What theories of cognitive development are there? - Chapter 11
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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?
What is cognitive psychology? - Chapter 1
What is the neural basis of cognition? - Chapter 2
How does visual perception work? - Chapter 3
How do we recognize objects? - Chapter 4
What is attention? - Chapter 5
What is memory? - Chapter 6
What is the relationship between acquisition and the retrieval of information? - Chapter 7
How do we remember complex events? - Chapter 8
What are concepts? - Chapter 9
What is language? - Chapter 10
What is visual imagery? - Chapter 11
How does judgement and reasoning work? - Chapter 12
What are problem solving strategies and what is intelligence? - Chapter 13
How do conscious and unconscious processes proceed? - Chapter 14
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Summary - Consciousness: An Introduction - Blackmore, Troscianko - 3rd edition

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Summaries per chapter of Critical Thinking van Moore and Parker - 13th edition

Summaries per chapter of Critical Thinking van Moore and Parker - 13th edition

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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?
Why is critical thinking important? - Chapter 1
What two ways of reasoning are there? - Chapter 2
How do you write a good text? - Chapter 3
When is something credible? - Chapter 4
How does persuasion work? - Chapter 5
How does relevance work? - Chapter 6
What are inductive thinking errors? - Chapter 7
What formal errors of thought are there? - Chapter 8
Which deductive arguments are there? - Chapter 9
What other deductive arguments are there? - Chapter 10
What is Inductive Reasoning? - Chapter 11
What is the moral, legal, and ethical reasoning? - Chapter 12
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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach by Scandura - Bundle

Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach by Scandura - Bundle

Summaries per chapter with Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach

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  • Chapter 1 - What is organizational behavior?
  • Chapter 2 - Does personality matter?
  • Chapter 3 - How do emotions and mood influence employees
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What is organizational behavior? - Chapter 1
Does personality matter? - Chapter 2
How do emotions and mood influence employees? - Chapter 3
How do attitudes and job satisfaction influence the workplace? - Chapter 4
Why do people not see eye to eye? - Chapter 5
What makes a good leader? - Chapter 6
How to use power in an organization? - Chapter 7
How is motivation related to performance? - Chapter 8
How to motivate employees? - Chapter 9
How to empower a team? - Chapter 10
What are the costs of workplace conflict? - Chapter 11
How may communication affect organizations? - Chapter 12
What is the impact of diversity on organizational behavior? - Chapter 13
How does culture impact an organization? - Chapter 14
How does change affect the organization? - Chapter 15
What is the scientific method in organizational behavior? - Appendix 1
What does the organizational structure look like? - Appendix 2 
Summaries per chapter with the 6th edition of Sensation and Perception by Wolfe et al.

Summaries per chapter with the 6th edition of Sensation and Perception by Wolfe et al.

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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What do the processes of sensation and perception entail? - Chapter 1
How can our eyes perceive light? - Chapter 2
How do people perceive spatial figures? - Chapter 3
How does object recognition work? - Chapter 4
How do we observe color? - Chapter 5
How does the perception of space and binocular vision work? - Chapter 6
How does attention and the perception of a scene work? - Chapter 7
How does the perception of movement work? - Chapter 8
What is sound and how do we perceive it? - Chapter 9
How do we locate sound? - Chapter 10
How do we perceive music and speech? - Chapter 11
What does vestibular sensation entail? - Chapter 12
How do we perceive touch? - Chapter 13
How does taste perception work? - Chapter 14
What is olfaction and how does it work? - Chapter 15
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Summary with The Science of Consciousness by Harley

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

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  • Cognitive psychology and the brain: The best textbooks summarized
  • Developmental psychology and child psychology: The best textbooks summarized
  • Labor- and organizational psychology: The best textbooks summarized
  • Personality psychology and human development: The best textbooks summarized
  • Social psychology and social relations: The best textbooks summarized
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  • Criminologie en crimineel gedrag: De beste studieboeken samengevat
  • Psychofarmacologie: De beste studieboeken samengevat
  • Seksuologie en seksualiteit: De beste studieboeken samengevat

About Psychology and behavioral sciences

  • Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and behavior, exploring thoughts, emotions, and actions. Behavioral sciences encompass a broader range of disciplines examining human and animal behavior, including psychology, sociology and anthropology.
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Biopsychology and neuropsychology: The best textbooks summarized
Clinical and health psychology: The best textbooks summarized
Cognitive psychology and the brain: The best textbooks summarized
Developmental psychology and child psychology: The best textbooks summarized
Labor- and organizational psychology: The best textbooks summarized
Personality psychology and human development: The best textbooks summarized
Social psychology and social relations: The best textbooks summarized
Working and studying as a psychologist: The best textbooks summarized
Criminologie en crimineel gedrag: De beste studieboeken samengevat
Psychofarmacologie: De beste studieboeken samengevat
Seksuologie en seksualiteit: De beste studieboeken samengevat
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  • Samenvatting bij het boek: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering van Wickens e.a. - 2e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Attention: Theory and Practice van Johnson en Proctor - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Brain and Cognition Custom edition UU van Goldstein e.a. - 4e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Cognition van Ashcraft en Radvansky - 5e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Cognition van Chun en Most - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind van Reisberg - 7e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Cognitive Development and Learning in Instructional Contexts van Byrnes - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Cognitive Psychology van Gilhooly e.a. - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Consciousness: An Introduction van Blackmore en Troscianko - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Critical Thinking van Moore en Parker - 13e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: De psychologie van Emotie
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Don’t shoot the dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training van Pryor - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Handbook of Bereavement Research: consequences, coping and care van Stroebe e.a
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Human factors in simple and complex systems van Proctor en Van Zandt - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Inleiding tot de Gedragstherapie van Hermans e.a. - 6e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Psychology of Emotion: Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches van Niedenthal e.a. - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Sensation and Perception van Wolfe e.a. - 4e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality van Greifeneder en Bless - 2e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: The Science of Consciousness van Harley
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: The students guide to cognitive neuroscience van Ward - 2e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Understanding Motivation and Emotion van Reeve - 7e druk

Over Cognitieve psychologie en het brein

  • De cognitieve psychologie bestudeert hoe onze mentale processen, zoals denken, leren en geheugen, werken. Door de hersenen te onderzoeken, proberen cognitieve psychologen te begrijpen hoe deze processen tot stand komen en welke hersenstructuren hierbij betrokken zijn.
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Boeksamenvatting bij An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering - Wickens e.a. - 2e druk
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 1e druk van Attention: Theory and Practice van Johnson & Proctor
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 4e druk van Brain and Cognition Custom edition UU van Goldstein e.a.
Samenvatting bij de 5e druk van Cognition van Ashcraft en Radvansky
Boeksamenvatting bij de 1e druk van Cognition van Chun en Most
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 7e druk van Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind van Reisberg
Boeksamenvatting bij de 3e druk van Cognitive Development and Learning in Instructional Contexts van Byrnes
Samenvatting bij Cognitive development: The learning brain van Goswami - 1e druk
Boeksamenvatting bij Cognitive Psychology - Gilhooly, Lyddy & Pollick - 1e druk
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 3e druk van Consciousness: An Introduction van Blackmore & Troscianko
Boeksamenvatting per hoofdstuk bij de 13e druk van Critical Thinking van Moore en Parker
Samenvatting: De psychologie van Emotie
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 3e druk van Don’t shoot the dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training van Pryor
Boeksamenvatting bij Handbook of Bereavement Research: consequences, coping and care - Stroebe e.a.
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 3e druk van Human factors in simple and complex systems van Proctor & Van Zandt
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 1ste druk van Psychology of Emotion: Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches van Niedenthal et al.
Samenvatting Inleiding tot de Gedragstherapie (Hermans, Eelen & Orlemans) - 6e druk
Boeksamenvatting bij Sensation and Perception van Wolfe e.a. - 4e druk
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 2e druk van Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality van Greifeneder & Bless
Samenvatting bij The Science of Consciousness van Harley
Samenvatting: The students guide to cognitive neuroscience van Ward (2e druk, 2010)
Samenvattingen per hoofdstuk bij de 7e druk van Understanding Motivation and Emotion van Reeve
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