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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: What Is Information Processing?
    1. 1.1 Formal Games
    2. 1.2 Form and Function
    3. 1.3 The Formalist’s Motto
    4. 1.4 Demonstrating the Formalist’s Motto
    5. 1.5 A Universal Machine
    6. 1.6 Why Is the Turing Machine Important?
    7. 1.7 The Modern Computer
    8. 1.8 Explaining How Computers Process Information
    9. 1.9 A Hierarchy of Levels
    10. 1.10 Explaining Human Cognition
    11. 1.11 Chapter Summary
  5. Chapter 2: Inferring Cognitive Processes
    1. 2.1 Using Symbols
    2. 2.2 Partial Report and Iconic Memory
    3. 2.3 Primary Memory and Acoustic Confusions
    4. 2.4 Delaying Recall from Primary Memory
    5. 2.5 Primary Memory and Recoding
    6. 2.6 Example: Recoding Digits into Chunks
    7. 2.7 Functional Dissociations of Serial Position Curves
    8. 2.8 Rehearsal and the Primacy Effect
    9. 2.9 Sentence Verification and Secondary Memory
    10. 2.10 Associations, Verbal Learning, and Secondary Memory
    11. 2.11 Imagery and Secondary Memory
    12. 2.12 Inferring Structure, Process, and Control
    13. 2.13 How to Remember π to 100 Digits
    14. 2.14 Chapter Summary
  6. Chapter 3: Using Functional Analysis to Explain Cognition
    1. 3.1 Competing Notions of Explanation
    2. 3.2 Functionalism, Hierarchies, and Functional Decomposition
    3. 3.3 Ryle’s Regress
    4. 3.4 Functional Analysis
    5. 3.5 The Architecture of Cognition
    6. 3.6 Functional Analysis of Colour Perception
    7. 3.7 The Cognitive Approach
    8. 3.8 Seeking Strong Equivalence
    9. 3.9 Relative Complexity Evidence
    10. 3.10 Error Evidence
    11. 3.11 Intermediate State Evidence
    12. 3.12 The Cognitive Impenetrability Criterion
    13. 3.13 Cognitive Psychology in Principle and in Practice
    14. 3.14 Chapter Summary
  7. Chapter 4: Cognitive Architectures
    1. 4.1 The Variety of Cognitive Psychology
    2. 4.2 Serial and Parallel Processing
    3. 4.3 Data-Driven and Theory-Driven Processing
    4. 4.4 Automatic and Controlled Processing
    5. 4.5 Structures and Processes
    6. 4.6 Structure, Process, and Control
    7. 4.7 Nativism and Empiricism
    8. 4.8 Isotropic and Modular Processing
    9. 4.9 An Example Architecture
    10. 4.10 Chapter Summary
  8. Chapter 5: Questioning Foundations
    1. 5.1 Questioning Foundational Assumptions
    2. 5.2 Do We Need the Computer Metaphor?
    3. 5.3 Does Cognition Require Rules?
    4. 5.4 Can Connectionist Networks Provide Cognitive Theories?
    5. 5.5 Do People Think?
    6. 5.6 Where Is the Mind?
    7. 5.7 Can Machines Think?
    8. 5.8 What Is the “Cognitive” in Cognitive Neuroscience?
    9. 5.9 Do Brains Think?
    10. 5.10 Which Topics Are Important to Cognitive Psychology?
    11. 5.11 What Is Cognitive Psychology?
  9. References

Copyright © 2022 Michael R. W. Dawson

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3

https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993418.01

Cover design by Sergiy Kozakov

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: What is cognitive psychology? / Michael R. W. Dawson.

Names: Dawson, Michael Robert William, 1959– author.

Description: Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220254389 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220254400 | ISBN 9781771993418 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993425 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993432 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive psychology.

Classification: LCC BF201 .D39 2022 | DDC 153—dc23

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities and the assistance provided by the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund.

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