436 • Subject IndexBrain Imaging
memory represented in, 41, 155–156,
190–195
neurons and neural circuits in, 25–29
primary receiving areas for the senses
in, 30
problem solving and, 383
reasoning and, 383
representation in, 37–41
resources related to, 44
review questions on, 36, 43, 44
summary points about, 43–44
thinking processes and, 382–385
visual imagery and, 279–285
working memory and, 137–141, 144
See also Mind; Neurons; Physiology
Brain ablation, 71–72
Brain asymmetry, 45
Brain damage
attention control and, 136
behavior affected by, 44
categorization and, 262
dissociations and, 73–74
imagery problems and, 282–285
language problems and, 304
memory impairment and, 117, 148–149,
155, 158–159, 162–163, 193, 200
thinking processes and, 382–383
visual neglect and, 112
working memory and, 136, 138–139
Brain imaging, 30–32
attention and, 107–108
categorization and, 262–263
cognitive processes and, 41–43
experience-dependent plasticity and,
68–69
imagery and, 280–281
memory and, 156, 159, 192, 206
story comprehension and, 313–314
techniques used for, 30–32
working memory and, 140
Broca’s aphasia, 33
Broca’s area, 33C
Candle problem, 329–330, 356
Car accidents, 94–95
Categorical perception, 324
Categorical syllogisms, 361–362
Categories, 240
Categorization, 240–267
brain imaging and, 262–263
CogLab experiments on, 267
connectionist approach to, 255–260
culture and, 266, 322
definitional approach to, 241–242
exemplar approach to, 246–247
hierarchical organization and, 247
in infants, 263–264
knowledge and, 249
language and, 322, 323levels related to, 247–249
neuropsychology and, 262
physiology of, 260–263
prototype approach to, 243–246, 247
resources related to, 266
review questions on, 249, 265, 266
semantic networks and, 250–255
summary points about, 265–266
usefulness of, 240–241
Category-specific knowledge impairment,
262
Causal inference, 310–311
Cell body, 26
Cell phone experiment, 94–95
Central executive, 132, 136, 140, 141
Cerebral cortex, 29–30
Chain problem, 328, 356
Challenger study, 210
Change blindness, 97
Change detection, 79, 96–98, 113
Cheating, 367
Chess masters, 127
Children
sexual abuse of, 233
suggestibility of, 236
See also Infants
Choice reaction time, 7
“Choking under pressure” effect, 352
Chunk, 126
Chunking, 126–128, 188
Circle problem, 327, 356
Circular reasoning, 176
Classical conditioning, 10, 157, 165,
195–196
Cocktail party effect, 85
Coding, 128–129
auditory, 128, 153
distributed, 40
long-term memory, 153–155
semantic, 129, 153–154
short-term memory, 128–129
specificity, 39–40
visual, 128–129, 153
See also Encoding
Coerced false confessions, 236
CogLab experiments
on attention, 113
on brain physiology, 45
on categorization, 267
on decision making, 389
on imagery, 291
on language, 324
on memory, 145, 169, 201, 237
on perception, 79
on reasoning, 389
Cognition, 5
age-related changes in, 200
brain imaging of, 41–43
creative, 350–351
culture and, 388
evolutionary perspective on, 366–367
language and, 317–319physiology of, 24, 25
working memory and, 141–142
Cognitive economy, 250–251
Cognitive hypothesis, 207
Cognitive interviews, 232
Cognitive load, 87
Cognitive maps, 11
Cognitive neuroscience, 24, 144
Cognitive psychology, 5
computers and, 12–13
early work in, 6–9
first modern textbook on, 14, 20
origin of term, 14
rebirth of, 12–15
timeline for development of, 15
Cognitive Psychology (Neisser), 14, 20
Cognitive resources, 87–90
Cognitive revolution, 12, 14, 271–272
Coherence, 310–311
Coherent motion, 107–108
Color perception, 317–319, 320
Companion website, 20
Comparing objects, 134
Compatible flankers, 88
Complex sentences, 176–177
Componential recovery, principle of, 51–52
Comprehension of language, 296
Computers
cognitive psychology and, 12–13
connectionist networks on, 255–260
flow diagram for, 12
logic theorist program for, 14, 331
perception represented by, 67
semantic networks on, 250–255
Concepts, 240
connectionism and, 255–260
information resource on, 266
semantic networks and, 250–255
Conceptual peg hypothesis, 272
Conceptual priming, 161
Conclusion of syllogism, 361
Concussions, 193
Conditional syllogisms, 362–367
four major types of, 363
Wason four-card problem and,
364–368
Conditioning
classical, 10, 157, 165, 195–196
operant, 10
Confabulation, 236
Confirmation bias, 374
Conjunction rule, 372–373
Connectionism, 255
Connectionist networks, 255–260
back propagation in, 258
characteristics of, 255–256
graceful degradation in, 259
representation of concepts in, 257–260
Connection weights, 255–256
Conscious memory, 156
Consequents, 362–363
Consistent mapping condition, 9133559_17_subject_index_p435-446.indd 43633559_17_subject_index_p435-446.indd 436 14/04/10 5:19 PM14/04/10 5:19 PM
Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.