Cognitive Psychology For Dummies®

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1. Table of Contents
   1. Cover
   2. Introduction
      1. About This Book
      2. Conventions Used in This Book
      3. Foolish Assumptions
      4. Icons Used in This Book
      5. Beyond the Book
      6. Where to Go from Here
   3. Part I: Getting Started with Cognitive Psychology
      1. Chapter 1: Understanding Cognition: How You Think, See, Speak and Are!
         1. Introducing Cognitive Psychology
         2. Researching Cognitive Psychology
         3. Acknowledging the Limitations of Cognitive Psychology
      2. Chapter 2: Studying Cognitive Psychology Means Studying the Everyday
         1. Recognising the Relevance of Cognitive Psychology
         2. Studying Cognitive Systems to See What Goes Right … and Wrong
         3. Accepting that Cognitive Psychology Doesn’t Have All the Answers
      3. Chapter 3: Improving Academic Performance with Cognitive Psychology
         1. Engaging Your Perception and Attention
         2. Improving Your Learning and Memory
         3. Polishing Up Your Academic Reading and Writing Skills
         4. Using Your Thinking Powers More Effectively
   4. Part II: Attending to the Subtleties of Perception
      1. Chapter 4: Perceiving the World around You
         1. Delving into Your Perception System
         2. Seeing What’s Going on in the World
         3. Constructing What You See in the World
         4. Following a World in Motion
      2. Chapter 5: Seeing How People See Depth and Colour
         1. Seeing the Third Dimension
         2. Living Life in Colour
      3. Chapter 6: Recognising Objects and People
         1. ‘Just Move a Bit, I Can’t See the View!’ Separating Figures from Background
         2. ‘What’s It Meant to Be?’ Perceiving Patterns to Recognise Objects
         3. ‘Hey, I Know You!’ Identifying Faces
      4. Chapter 7: Atten-hut! Paying Attention to Attention
         1. ‘Hey, You!’ Grabbing Attention
         2. ‘Now Concentrate!’ Controlling Attention
         3. Running on Autopilot
         4. When Things Go Wrong: Attention Disorders
   5. Part III: Minding Your Memory
      1. Chapter 8: Where Did I Put My Keys? Short-Term Memory
         1. Splitting Memory Up
         2. Putting Your Memory to Work
         3. Processing Your Memory – Executively
      2. Chapter 9: You Don’t Remember Our Wedding Day? Long-Term Memory
         1. Digging Deep: Levels of Processing Memories
         2. Classifying Long-Term Memories
         3. Storing and Recalling Long-Term Memories
         4. Looking at When Memory Goes Wrong
      3. Chapter 10: Knowing about Knowledge
         1. Thinking of Knowledge as Concepts
         2. Organising Knowledge in Your Brain
         3. Representing Items in Your Head
         4. Putting Aside Knowledge in Your Brain
      4. Chapter 11: Discovering Why You Forget Things
         1. ‘It’s on the Tip of My Tongue!’ Forgetting Things
         2. Intending to Forget
         3. Creating False Memories
      5. Chapter 12: Memorising in the Real World
         1. Remembering Yourself and Your Life
         2. Flashing Back in Time
         3. Being an Eyewitness
   6. Part IV: Communicating What Your Brain Thinks about Language
      1. Chapter 13: Communicating the Extraordinary Nature of Language
         1. Monkey Business: Looking at Language in the Animal Kingdom
         2. Discovering What Makes Human Language Special
         3. ‘Uggh. Mama. Me Want Be Psychologist!’ Developing Language Skills
      2. Chapter 14: Studying the Structure of Language
         1. Staring at the Smallest Language Units
         2. Working with Words
         3. Seeing What Sentences Can Do
         4. Building Stories that Mean Something
      3. Chapter 15: Talking about Language Perception and Production
         1. Decoding the Art of Reading
         2. Putting Together Coherent Sentences
         3. Recognising Speech as Speech
         4. Delving into Language Problems
      4. Chapter 16: Discovering the Links between Language and Thought
         1. Investigating the Idea that You Need Language to Think
         2. Thinking without Language: Possible or not?
         3. Comparing the Opposing Arguments
   7. Part V: Thinking Your Way around Thought
      1. Chapter 17: Uncovering How People Solve Problems
         1. Experimenting to Reveal Thought Processes: Gestalt Psychology
         2. Watching the Rise of the Computers: Information Processing Approaches
         3. Examining Expert Problem-Solving
         4. Modelling How Learners Learn with Intelligent Tutoring Systems
      2. Chapter 18: Thinking Logically about Reasoning
         1. Testing Human Logic
         2. ‘It’s Only (Formally) Logical, Captain’
         3. Reasoning with Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
         4. Explaining Reasoning with Models
      3. Chapter 19: Making Up Your Mind: Decision-Making
         1. Researching Real-World Decision-Making
         2. Deciding to Look into Your Brain
         3. Altering People’s Decisions
      4. Chapter 20: Thinking Clearly about the Role of Emotions
         1. How Do You Feel? Introducing Emotions
         2. Recognising the Reach of Emotion
         3. Looking Behind the Reality: How Mood Interacts with Cognition
         4. Encountering Emotions Going Wrong
   8. Part VI: The Part of Tens
      1. Chapter 21: Studying Patients with Brain Damage
         1. Smelling More than Normal
         2. Losing Track of Movement
         3. Failing to Recognise Faces
         4. (Almost) Neglecting the World
         5. Forgetting What You Learn
         6. Knowing that Knowledge Is Slipping Away
         7. Developing without Language
         8. Reading but Not Understanding Words
         9. Struggling to Speak Grammatically
         10. Changing Personality
      2. Chapter 22: Ten Tips for Writing Successful Research Reports
         1. Using the Correct Format
         2. Including Background Research
         3. Criticising Existing Research
         4. Developing Testable Hypotheses
         5. Providing Detailed Methods
         6. Presenting Your Results Clearly
         7. Interpreting Results within Theories
         8. Suggesting Future Research
         9. Avoiding Criticising the Sample
         10. Don’t Knock Ecological Validity
      3. Chapter 23: Busting Ten Cognitive Psychology Myths
         1. Using Your Whole Brain
         2. Seeing Depth with Two Eyes
         3. Failing to See Colour, in Men
         4. Falling for a Symmetrical Face
         5. Memorising like a Tape Recorder
         6. Listening to Mozart Makes You Smarter
         7. Getting Aggressive about Computer Games
         8. Hunting for Free Will
         9. Communicating Differently as a Man or a Woman
         10. Hypnotising You to Do Anything
   9. About the Authors
   10. Cheat Sheet
   11. Advertisement Page
   12. Connect with Dummies
   13. End User License Agreement

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