Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing: An Introduction

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Psychology Press, Dec 22, 2015 - Psychology - 592 pages
First published in 1979. Basic research, at its essence, is exploration of the unknown. When it is successful, isolated pieces of reality are deciphered and described. Most of the history of an empirical discipline consists of probes into this darkness-some bold, others careful and systematic. Most of these efforts are initially incorrect. At best, they are distant approximations to a reality that may not be correctly specified for centuries. How, then, can we describe the fragmented knowledge that characterizes a scientific discipline for most of its history? A dynamic field of science is held together by its paradigm. The author’s think it is essential to adequate scientific education to teach paradigms, and believe that there is an effective method. The method emphasizes the integral nature, rather than the objective correctness, of a given set of consensual commitments. They believe that paradigmatic content can be effectively combined with the technical research literature commonly presented in scientific texts. This book represents the culmination of those beliefs.
 

Contents

THE PREMISES OF THIS BOOK
1
2 PSYCHOLOGYS CONTRIBUTION TO THE INFORMATIONPROCESSING PARADIGM
35
3 CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER DISCIPLINES TO INFORMATIONPROCESSING PSYCHOLOGY
60
4 THE INFORMATIONPROCESSING PARADIGM
88
THE MEASURE OF AN EMERGING PARADIGM
130
6 CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTION
183
THE EPISODIC MEMORY SYSTEM AND ITS PARTS
210
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR MULTISTORE MODELS
257
10 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
345
11 COMPREHENSION FROM THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC VIEWPOINT
405
12 DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND GLOBAL MODELS OF COMPREHENSION
450
13 PATTERN RECOGNITION
489
CRITIQUES OF THE PARADIGM
524
REFERENCES
533
AUTHOR INDEX
557
SUBJECT INDEX
565

9 SEMANTIC MEMORY
298

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Roy Lachman and Janet L. Lachman University of Houston, Earl. C.Butterfield University of Kansas Medical Center

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