Test Bank for Cognition 7th Edition by Radvansky

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134832620
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134832623
• Author:  Gabriel Radvansky; Mark H Ashcraft

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.   Provides a balance between classic research and current topics   The psychology of human memory and cognition is fascinating, dealing with questions and ideas that are inherently interesting; how we think, reason, remember, and use language, to name just a few. Using a first person narrative, Cognition, 7/e poses direct questions to the reader, and balances classic research with cutting edge topics, drawing in the reader and conveying the excitement of the field.  

Table of contents:

1. 1 Cognitive Psychology
2. 1.1 Thinking About Thinking
3. 1.2 Memory and Cognition Defined
4. 1.3 An Introductory History of Cognitive Psychology
5. 1.3.1 Anticipations of Psychology
6. 1.3.2 Early Psychology
7. 1.3.3 Behaviorism
8. 1.3.4 Emerging Cognition
9. 1.4 Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing
10. 1.5 Measuring Information Processes
11. 1.5.1 Interpreting Graphs
12. 1.5.2 Time and Accuracy Measures
13. 1.6 The Standard Theory and Cognitive Science
14. 1.6.1 The Standard Theory
15. 1.6.2 A Process Model
16. 1.6.3 Revealing Assumptions
17. 1.6.4 Cognitive Science
18. 1.7 Themes of Cognition
19. Summary: Cognitive Psychology
20. 2 Cognitive Neuroscience
21. 2.1 The Brain and Cognition Together
22. 2.1.1 Dissociations and Double Dissociations
23. 2.2 Basic Neurology
24. 2.2.1 Neuron Structure
25. 2.2.2 Neural Communication
26. 2.2.3 Neurons and Learning
27. 2.3 Important Brain Structures and Function
28. 2.3.1 Subcortical Brain Structures
29. 2.3.2 Cortical Brain Structures
30. 2.3.3 Principles of Functioning
31. 2.3.4 Split-Brain Research and Lateralization
32. 2.3.5 Cortical Specialization
33. 2.3.6 Levels of Explanation and Embodied Cognition
34. 2.4 Neuroimaging
35. 2.4.1 Structural Measures
36. 2.4.2 Electrical Measures
37. 2.4.3 Metabolic Measures
38. 2.4.4 Other Methods
39. 2.5 Connectionism
40. Summary: Cognitive Neuroscience
41. 3 Sensation and Perception
42. 3.1 Psychophysics
43. 3.1.1 Detection and Absolute Thresholds
44. 3.1.2 Discrimination
45. 3.1.3 Decisions About Physical and Mental Differences
46. 3.1.4 Signal Detection Theory
47. 3.2 Visual Sensation and Perception
48. 3.2.1 Gathering Visual Information
49. 3.2.2 Synesthesia
50. 3.2.3 Visual Sensory Memory
51. 3.2.4 The Early Parts of a Fixation
52. 3.2.5 Visual Attention
53. 3.2.6 Trans-saccadic Memory
54. 3.3 Pattern Recognition
55. 3.3.1 Gestalt Grouping Principles
56. 3.3.2 The Template Approach
57. 3.3.3 Visual Feature Detection
58. 3.4 Top-Down Processing
59. 3.4.1 Conceptually Driven Pattern Recognition
60. 3.4.2 Connectionist Modeling
61. 3.5 Object Recognition and Agnosia
62. 3.5.1 Recognition by Components
63. 3.5.2 Context and Embodied Perception
64. 3.5.3 Agnosia
65. 3.5.4 Implications for Cognitive Science
66. 3.6 Auditory Sensation and Perception
67. 3.6.1 Auditory Sensory Memory
68. 3.6.2 Auditory Pattern Recognition
69. Summary: Sensation and Perception
70. 4 Attention
71. 4.1 Multiple Meanings of Attention
72. 4.1.1 Attention as a Mental Process
73. 4.1.2 Attention as a Limited Mental Resource
74. 4.2 Basic Input Attentional Processes
75. 4.2.1 Alertness and Arousal
76. 4.2.2 Orienting Reflex and Attention Capture
77. 4.2.3 Visual Search
78. 4.2.4 Contrasting Input and Controlled Attention
79. 4.2.5 Video Games as Mechanisms for Improving Attention
80. 4.2.6 Hemineglect
81. 4.3 Controlled, Voluntary Attention
82. 4.3.1 Selective Attention and the Cocktail Party Effect
83. 4.3.2 Selection Models
84. 4.4 Attention as a Mental Resource
85. 4.4.1 Automatic and Controlled Processing
86. 4.4.2 The Role of Practice in Automaticity
87. 4.4.3 Disadvantages of Automaticity
88. Summary: Attention
89. 5 Short-Term Working Memory
90. 5.1 A Limited-Capacity Bottleneck
91. 5.1.1 Short-Term Memory Capacity
92. 5.1.2 Forgetting From Short-Term Memory
93. 5.2 Short-Term Memory Retrieval
94. 5.2.1 Serial Position Effects
95. 5.2.2 Short-Term Memory Scanning
96. 5.3 Working Memory
97. 5.3.1 The Components of Working Memory
98. 5.3.2 The Central Executive
99. 5.3.3 The Phonological Loop
100. 5.3.4 The Visuo-Spatial Sketch Pad
101. 5.3.5 The Episodic Buffer
102. 5.3.6 Engle’s Controlled Attention Model
103. 5.4 Assessing Working Memory
104. 5.4.1 Dual Task Method
105. 5.4.2 Working Memory Span
106. 5.4.3 Improving Working Memory
107. 5.5 Working Memory and Cognition
108. 5.5.1 Working Memory and Attention
109. 5.5.2 Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
110. 5.5.3 Working Memory and Reasoning
111. 5.5.4 Sometimes Small Working Memory Spans Are Better
112. 5.5.5 Working Memory Overview
113. Summary: Short-Term Working Memory
114. 6 Learning and Remembering
115. 6.1 Preliminary Issues
116. 6.1.1 Mnemonics
117. 6.1.2 The Ebbinghaus Tradition
118. 6.1.3 Memory Consolidation
119. 6.1.4 Metamemory
120. 6.2 Storing Information in Episodic Memory
121. 6.2.1 Rehearsal
122. 6.2.2 Depth of Processing
123. 6.2.3 Challenges to Depth of Processing
124. 6.3 Boosting Episodic Memory
125. 6.3.1 The Self-Reference Effect
126. 6.3.2 Generation, Production, and Enactment
127. 6.3.3 Organization in Storage
128. 6.3.4 Improving Memory
129. 6.3.5 Imagery
130. 6.3.6 Adaptive Memory
131. 6.4 Context
132. 6.4.1 Encoding Specificity
133. 6.4.2 Source Monitoring
134. 6.5 Facts and Situation Models
135. 6.5.1 The Nature of Propositions
136. 6.5.2 Situation Models
137. 6.6 Autobiographical Memories
138. 6.6.1 Psychologists as Subjects
139. 6.6.2 Infantile Amnesia
140. 6.6.3 Reminiscence Bump
141. 6.6.4 Involuntary Memory
142. 6.7 Memory for the Future
143. 6.7.1 Prospective Memory
144. 6.7.2 Episodic Future Thinking
145. Summary: Learning and Remembering
146. 7 Knowing
147. 7.1 Semantic Memory
148. 7.1.1 Persistence of Semantic Knowledge
149. 7.1.2 Semantic Networks
150. 7.1.3 Feature Comparison Models
151. 7.1.4 Tests of Semantic Memory Models
152. 7.1.5 Semantic Relatedness
153. 7.2 Connectionism and the Brain
154. 7.2.1 Connectionism
155. 7.2.2 The Benefits of Connectionist Models
156. 7.3 Semantic Priming
157. 7.3.1 Nuts and Bolts of Priming Tasks
158. 7.3.2 Empirical Demonstrations of Priming
159. 7.3.3 Automatic and Controlled Priming
160. 7.3.4 Priming Is Implicit
161. 7.4 Schemata and Scripts
162. 7.4.1 Bartlett’s Research
163. 7.4.2 Schemata
164. 7.4.3 Scripts
165. 7.5 Concepts and Categorization
166. 7.5.1 Classic View of Categorization
167. 7.5.2 Characteristics of Human Categories
168. 7.5.3 Probabilistic Theories of Categorization
169. 7.5.4 Explanation-Based Theories
170. Summary: Knowing
171. 8 Memory and Forgetting
172. 8.1 The Seven Sins of Memory
173. 8.2 Forgetting Through Decay and Interference
174. 8.2.1 Paired-Associate Learning
175. 8.2.2 Associative Interference
176. 8.2.3 Situation Models and Interference
177. 8.2.4 Overcoming Forgetting from Interference
178. 8.2.5 Retrieval Cues
179. 8.2.6 Part-Set Cuing Effect
180. 8.3 False Memories, Eyewitness Memory, and “Forgotten Memories”
181. 8.3.1 False Memories
182. 8.3.2 Integration
183. 8.3.3 Leading Questions and Memory Distortions
184. 8.3.4 The Misleading Information Effect
185. 8.3.5 Source Misattribution and Misinformation Acceptance
186. 8.3.6 Stronger Memory Distortion Effects
187. 8.3.7 Repressed and Recovered Memories
188. 8.3.8 The Irony of Memory
189. 8.4 Amnesia and Implicit Memory
190. 8.4.1 Dissociation of Episodic and Semantic Memory
191. 8.4.2 Anterograde Amnesia
192. 8.4.3 Implicit and Explicit Memory as Revealed by Amnesia
193. Summary: Memory and Forgetting
194. 9 Language
195. 9.1 Linguistic Universals and Functions
196. 9.1.1 Defining Language
197. 9.1.2 Language Universals
198. 9.1.3 Animal Communication
199. 9.1.4 Levels of Analysis
200. 9.2 Phonology
201. 9.2.1 Sounds in Isolation
202. 9.2.2 Combining Phonemes into Morphemes
203. 9.2.3 Speech Perception and Context
204. 9.2.4 The Effect of Context
205. 9.2.5 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes
206. 9.2.6 Embodiment in Speech Perception
207. 9.2.7 The Puzzle of Apparent Segments in Speech
208. 9.3 Syntax
209. 9.3.1 Chomsky’s Transformational Grammar
210. 9.3.2 Limitations of Transformational Grammar
211. 9.3.3 The Cognitive Role of Syntax
212. 9.3.4 Prosody
213. 9.4 Lexical Factors
214. 9.4.1 Morphemes
215. 9.4.2 Lexical Representation
216. 9.4.3 Polysemy
217. 9.5 Semantics
218. 9.5.1 Case Grammar
219. 9.5.2 Interaction of Syntax and Semantics
220. 9.5.3 Evidence for the Semantic Grammar Approaches
221. 9.6 Brain and Language
222. 9.6.1 Language in the Intact Brain
223. 9.6.2 Aphasia
224. 9.6.3 Generalizing from Cases of Brain Damage
225. Summary: Language
226. 10 Comprehension
227. 10.1 Conceptual and Rule Knowledge
228. 10.1.1 Comprehension Research
229. 10.1.2 Online Comprehension Tasks
230. 10.1.3 Metacomprehension
231. 10.1.4 Comprehension as Mental Structure Building
232. 10.1.5 Levels of Comprehension
233. 10.2 Reading
234. 10.2.1 Gaze Duration
235. 10.2.2 Basic Online Reading Effects
236. 10.2.3 Benefits of Online Reading
237. 10.2.4 Factors That Affect Reading
238. 10.3 Reference, Situation Models, and Events
239. 10.3.1 Reference
240. 10.3.2 Situation Models
241. 10.3.3 Events
242. 10.4 Conversation and Gesture
243. 10.4.1 The Structure of Conversations
244. 10.4.2 Cognitive Conversational Characteristics
245. 10.4.3 Empirical Effects in Conversation
246. 10.4.4 Metaphors and Idioms
247. 10.4.5 Gesture
248. Summary: Comprehension
249. 11 Reasoning and Decision Making
250. 11.1 Formal Logic and Reasoning
251. 11.1.1 Categorical Syllogisms
252. 11.1.2 Theories of Syllogistic Reasoning
253. 11.1.3 Conditional Reasoning
254. 11.1.4 Hypothesis Testing
255. 11.2 Decisions
256. 11.2.1 Algorithms and Heuristics
257. 11.3 Classic Heuristics, Biases, and Fallacies
258. 11.3.1 The Representativeness Heuristic
259. 11.3.2 The Availability Heuristic
260. 11.3.3 The Simulation Heuristic
261. 11.3.4 Elimination by Aspects
262. 11.3.5 The Undoing Heuristic
263. 11.4 Framing and Risky Decisions
264. 11.4.1 Risk Aversion and Seeking
265. 11.4.2 Outcome Magnitude
266. 11.5 Adaptive Thinking and “Fast and Frugal” Heuristics
267. 11.5.1 Some Fast and Frugal Heuristics in Detail
268. 11.5.2 The Ongoing Debate
269. 11.6 Other Explanations
270. 11.6.1 Bayesian Theories
271. 11.6.2 Quantum Theory
272. 11.7 Limitations in Reasoning
273. 11.7.1 Limited Domain Knowledge
274. 11.7.2 Limitations in Processing Resources

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