Approaches to Cognition - Contrasts and Controversies

Informationen zum Autor Terry J. Knapp, Lynn C. Robertson Zusammenfassung One of the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental distinctions between and concordances among different orientations concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and operant psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Daniel N. Robinson 2. The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century Terry J. Knapp 3. The Information Processing Approach to Cognition Stephen E. Palmer and Ruth Kimchi 4. Why I Am Not a Cognitive Psychologist B.F. Skinner 5. Bringing Cognition and Creativity into the Behavioral Laboratory Robert Epstein 6. Understanding Animal Cognition Donald A. Riley, Michael F. Brown and Sonja I. Yoerg 7. J.J. Gibson’s Ecological Theory of Information Pickup: Cognition From the Ground Up William M. Mace 8. From Gestalt to Neo-Gestalt Lynn C. Robertson 9. Cognitive Intervention in Perceptual Processing Irvin Rock 10. Toward a Computational Neuropsychology of High-Level Vision Stephen Michael Kosslyn 11. Cognitive Neuropsychology Dean C. Delis and Beth A. Ober 12. Putting Cognitive Psychology to Work: Examples from Computer System Design Louis M. Gomez and Susan T. Dumais 13. A Coordination of Differences: Behaviorism, Mentalism, and the Foundations of Psychology Roger Schnaitter . Author Index. Subject Index

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• Authors: Terry J. Robertson Knapp
• Assisted by: Terry J. Knapp (Editor), Knapp Terry J. (Editor), Lynn C. Robertson (Editor), Robertson Lynn C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138641013
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64101-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory