[...]... of the established features: • Practical Applications of Cognitive Psychology feature boxes help students think about applications of cognitive psychology in their own lives • Investigating Cognitive Psychology features present mini-experiments and tasks that students can complete on their own What’s New to the 6th Edition Cognitive Psychology, 6th edition underwent a major revision to make the book... 1 2 3 4 What is cognitive psychology? How did psychology develop as a science? How did cognitive psychology develop from psychology? How have other disciplines contributed to the development of theory and research in cognitive psychology? 5 What methods do cognitive psychologists use to study how people think? 6 What are the current issues and various fields of study within cognitive psychology? n BELIEVE... Its Parts: Gestalt Psychology Emergence of Cognitive Psychology Early Role of Psychobiology Add a Dash of Technology: Engineering, Computation, and Applied Cognitive Psychology Three Cognitive Models of Intelligence Carroll: Three-Stratum Model of Intelligence Gardner: Theory of Multiple Intelligences Sternberg: The Triarchic Theory of Intelligence Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology Goals of... Investigating Cognitive Psychology demonstrations, appearing throughout the chapters, help you see how cognitive psychology can be used to demonstrate various psychological phenomena 8 Practical Applications of Cognitive Psychology demonstrations show how you and others can apply cognitive psychology to your everyday lives 9 In the Lab of boxes tell you what it really is like to do research in cognitive psychology. .. with other fields within psychology, such as psychobiology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology For example, it is difficult to be a clinical psychologist today without a solid knowledge of developments in cognitive psychology because so much of the thinking in the clinical field draws on cognitive ideas, both in diagnosis and in therapy Cognitive psychology has also provided... Words 273 n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Representations in Pictures and Words n n n n 275 Pictures in Your Mind: Mental Imagery 276 Dual-Code Theory: Images and Symbols 277 Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Can Your Brain Store Images of Your Face? 277 Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Analogical and Symbolic Representations of Cats 279 Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Dual Coding 279... Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Syntax 381 Practical Applications of Cognitive Psychology: Speaking with Non-Native English Speakers 385 Reading 386 When Reading Is a Problem—Dyslexia 386 Perceptual Issues in Reading 387 Lexical Processes in Reading 388 Understanding Conversations and Essays: Discourse n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Discourse 392 n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Deciphering... Information 230 Forms of Encoding 230 Transfer of Information from Short-Term Memory to Long-Term Memory 233 ix x Contents n Practical Applications of Cognitive Psychology: Memory Strategies 238 Retrieval 242 Retrieval from Short-Term Memory 242 n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Test Your Short-Term Memory Retrieval from Long-Term Memory Intelligence and Retrieval 246 242 244 Processes of Forgetting... Have An Advantage Over Experts? The Problem-Solving Cycle 443 444 Types of Problems 447 Well-Structured Problems 447 n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Move Problems Ill-Structured Problems and the Role of Insight 447 454 Obstacles and Aids to Problem Solving 460 Mental Sets, Entrenchment, and Fixation 460 n Investigating Cognitive Psychology: Luchins’s Water-Jar Problems 461 441 408 xiv Contents Negative... training programs, etc.) xxix This page intentionally left blank C H 1 A P T E R Introduction to Cognitive Psychology CHAPTER OUTLINE Cognitive Psychology Defined Philosophical Antecedents of Psychology: Rationalism versus Empiricism Psychological Antecedents of Cognitive Psychology Early Dialectics in the Psychology of Cognition Understanding the Structure of the Mind: Structuralism Understanding the . Researcher: PreMediaGlobal Text Researcher: Karyn Morrison Cover Designer: Cheryl Carrington Cover Images: clockwise from upper right: Sung-Il Kim/Corbis; Eva Wernlid/ Nordicphotos/Corbis; Ariel. Management: PreMediaGlobal Design Director: Rob Hugel Art Director: Vernon Boes Print Buyer: Mary Beth Hennebury Rights Acquisitions Specialist: Roberta Broyer Rights Acquisitions Director: Robert Kauser Photo. or keyword for materials in your areas of interest. Cognitive Psychology, Sixth Edition Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg Acquisitions Editor: Jaime Perkins Developmental Editor: Tangelique