"The breadth of coverage and the expertise of the authors make this
volume an invaluable research and teaching resource."
-- Sam Glucksberg, Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University
Most cognitive psychology texts are organized around empirical
findings on standard substantive topics such as perception, memory,
vision, and language. This book is the first to introduce the study
of cognition in terms of the major conceptual themes that underlie
virtually all the substantive topics. Taking a dialectical approach,
the chapters contrast alternative approaches to the underlying themes
(e.g., domain-generality vs. domain-specificity), then show how a
synthesis of the two approaches provides the best understanding.
The book is organized into six sections: general issues in cognition,
representation and process in cognition, methodology in cognition,
kinds of cognition, group and individual differences in cognition, and
a conclusion.
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