An introduction to applied cognitive psychology

✍ Scribed by Anthony Esgate, David Groome, Kevin Baker

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Co-Authors: Kevin Baker, Corriene Reed, David Heathcote, Moira Maguire & Richard Kemp An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a student friendly review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories and models to real-world scenarios. The authors approach cognitive psychology by looking at how people use basic cognitive skills in everyday environments. In this way, they explore how people use their knowledge to influence their behaviour in life, and throw light on the inter-relationships between each part of the cognitive system. The central areas of visual perception, attention, memory, language, thinking, decision making and human performance are covered, as in conventional cognitive textbooks, but they are addressed in terms of practical applications to skill training, expertise and skilled behaviour. Whereas experimental psychology often remains in the laboratory, this book will show undergraduates how the implications and methodological insights of theoretical work can be brought into the real world, and vice versa.

✦ Table of Contents

An Introduction toApplied CognitivePsychology......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Figures and tables......Page 18
Figure acknowledgements......Page 22
About the authors......Page 23
Preface......Page 24
1. Introduction to applied cognitive psychology......Page 26
2. Memory improvement......Page 34
3. Everyday memory......Page 60
4. Face identification......Page 86
5. Working memory and performance limitations......Page 114
6. Skill, attention and cognitive failure......Page 134
7. Biological cycles and cognitive performance......Page 162
8. Drugs and cognitive performance......Page 188
9. Intuitive statistics, judgements and decision making......Page 218
10. Auditory perception......Page 244
11. Reading and dyslexia......Page 278
References......Page 298
Subject index......Page 334
Author index......Page 340