Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1. The Foundations of Cognitive Psychology -- 1. The Science of the Mind -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- The Scope of Cognitive Psychology -- A Brief History -- Research in Cognitive Psychology: An Example -- 2. The Neural Basis for Cognition -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Capgras Syndrome: An Initial Example -- The Principal Structures of the Brain -- The Visual System -- Part 2. Learning About the World Around Us -- 3. Recognizing Objects in the World -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Visual Perception -- Object Recognition -- Word Recognition -- Feature Nets and Word Recognition -- Descendants of the Feature Net -- Different Objects, Different Recognition Systems? -- Top-Down Influences on Object Recognition -- 4. Paying Attention -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Selective Listening -- Perceiving and the Limits on Cognitive Capacity -- Divided Attention -- Practice -- Part 3. Memory -- 5. The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- The Route Into Memory -- A Closer Look at Working Memory -- Entering Long-Term Storage: The Role of the Intent to Learn -- The Role of Meaning and Memory Connections -- Organizing and Memorizing -- The Study of Memory Acquisition -- 6. Interconnections Between Acquisition and Retrieval -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Retrieval Hints and Cues -- Encoding Specificity -- Different Forms of Memory Testing -- Implicit Memory -- Theoretical Treatments of Implicit Memory -- Amnesia -- 7. Remembering Complex Events -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Memory Errors, Memory Gaps -- Memory Errors: Some Initial Examples -- Memory Errors: A Hypothesis -- Evaluating Human Memory -- Autobiographical Memory -- Part 4. Knowledge -- 8. Associative Theories of Long-Term Memory -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- The Network Notion -- Evidence Favoring the Network Approach -- More Direct Tests of the Network Claims -- Retrieving Information From a Network -- Unpacking the Nodes -- Evaluating Network Models -- The Newest Chapter: Connectionism -- 9. Concepts and Generic Knowledge -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Definitions: What Do We Know When We Know What a Dog Is? -- Prototypes and Typicality Effects -- Exemplars -- The Difficulties With Categorizing via Resemblance -- Concepts as Theories -- 10. Language -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Phonology -- Words and the Nature of Linguistic Rules -- Syntax -- Sentence Parising -- The Biology of Language -- 11. Visual Knowledge -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Visual Imagery -- Long-Term Visual Memory -- The Diversity of Knowledge -- Part 5. Thinking -- 12. Judgment: Drawing Conclusions From Evidence -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Availability -- Anchoring -- Detecting Covariation -- Base Rates -- Assessing the Damage -- 13. Reasoning: Thinking Through the Implications of What You Know -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- Confirmation and Disconfirmation -- Logic -- Mental Models -- Decision-Making -- 14. Solving Problems -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- General Problem-Solving Methods -- Relying on Past Knowledge -- Defining the Problem -- Creativity -- 15. Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought -- Preview of Chapter Themes -- The Cognitive Unconscious -- The Disadvantages of Unconscious Processing -- The Function of Consciousness -- Consciousness: What Is Left Unsaid.