Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: STUDYING THE MIND

What Is the Mind?

Studying the Mind: Early Work in Cognitive Psychology

Models of the Mind

Watson Founds Behaviorism

Skinner’s Operant Conditioning

Setting the Stage for the Reemergence of the Mind in Psychology

THE REBIRTH OF THE STUDY OF THE MIND

Introduction of the Digital Computer

Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Information Theory

RESEARCHING THE MIND

Memory Consolidation From a Behavioral Perspective

Memory Consolidation From a Physiological Perspective

THE NATURE OF PERCEPTION

SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: LEARNING FROM THIS BOOK

TEST YOURSELF 1.1

CHAPTER SUMMARY

THINK ABOUT IT

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE

KEY TERMS

MEDIA RESOURCES

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