Cognitive psychology : revisiting the classic studies /
edited by Michael W. Eysenck & David Groome.
- xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Psychology: revisiting the classic studies .
- Psychology: revisiting the classic studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to classic studies in cognitive psychology / Attention : beyond Cherry's (1953) cocktail party problem / Perception : beyond Gibson's (1950) direct perception / Computational approaches to perception : beyond Marr's (1982) computational approach to vision / Perception and action : beyond Goodale and Milner's (1992) separate visual pathways / Attention : beyond Stroop's (1935) colour-word interference phenomenon / Amnesia : beyond Scoville and Milner's (1957) research on HM / Working memory : beyond Baddeley and Hitch's (1974) working memory / Memory systems : beyond Tulving's (1972) episodic and semantic memory / Encoding and retrieval : beyond Tulving and Thomson's (1973) encoding specificity principle / Human problem solving : beyond Newell, Shaw, and Simon's (1958) theory of human problem solving / Heuristics and biases : beyond Tversky and Kahneman's (1974) judgment under uncertainty / Decision making under risk : beyond Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory / Language : beyond Chomsky's (1957) syntactic structures / Cognitive neuropsychology of language : beyond Marshall and Newcombe's (1973) patterns of paralexia / Michael W. Eysenck and David Groome -- Michael W. Eysenck -- Vicki Bruce and Yoav Tadmor -- George Mather -- Glyn Humphreys -- Colin MacLeod -- Howard Eichenbaum -- Robert Logie -- Michael W. Eysenck and David Groome -- James Nairne -- Fernand Gobet and Peter Lane -- Klaus Fiedler and Momme von Sydow -- Ben Newell -- Trevor Harley and Siobhan MacAndrew -- Max Coltheart.
Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Chomsky, Tulving and Stroop to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired. Suitable for students on cognitive psychology courses at all levels, as well as anyone with an enquiring mind.