Cognitive Psychology

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today.  It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted.  Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Chomsky, Tulving and Stroop to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Chomsky, Tulving and Stroop to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired. Suitable for students on cognitive psychology courses at all levels, as well as anyone with an enquiring mind.

Chapter 1: An introduction to classic studies in cognitive psychology - Michael Eysenck and David GroomeChapter 2: Attention: Beyond Cherry's (1953) cocktail party problem - Michael EysenckChapter 3: Perception: Beyond Gibson's (1950) direct perception - Vicki Bruce & Yoav TadmorChapter 4: Computational approaches to perception: Beyond Marr's (1982) computational approach to vision - George MatherChapter 5: Perception and action: Beyond Goodale and Milner's (1992) separate visual pathways - Glyn HumphreysChapter 6: Attention: Beyond Stroop's (1935) colour-word interference phenomenon - Colin MacLeodChapter 7: Amnesia: Beyond Scoville and Milner's (1957) research on HM - Howard EichenbaumChapter 8: Working memory: Beyond Baddeley and Hitch's (1974) Working Memory - Robert LogieChapter 9: Memory systems: Beyond Tulving's (1972) episodic and semantic memory - Michael Eysenck & David GroomeChapter 10: Encoding and retrieval: Beyond Tulving and Thomson's (1973) encoding specificity principle - James NairneChapter 11: Human problem solving: Beyond Newell, Shaw, & Simon's (1958) theory of human problem solving - Fernand Gobet & Peter LaneChapter 12: Heuristics and biases: Beyond Tversky and Kahneman's (1974) Judgment under uncertainty - Klaus Fiedler & Momme von SydowChapter 13: Decision making under risk: Beyond Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory - Ben NewellChapter 14: Language: Beyond Chomsky's (1957) syntactic structures - Trevor Harley and Siobhan MacAndrewChapter 15: Cognitive neuropsychology of language: Beyond Marshall and Newcombe's (1973) patterns of paralexia - Max Coltheart