Carol Brown 
Cognitive Psychology 

Cognitive Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in cognitive psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements on a cognitive psychology course.

The Companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course, providing:

– Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid lecture notes, seminars and written assignments

– Key summaries of the approach taken by the main cognitive psychology textbooks

– Guidance on the essential study skills required

– Help with developing critical thinking

– Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond textbooks

– Pointers to success in course exams

– A tutor′s-eye view of what course examiners are looking for

– An insider′s view of what key course concepts are really all about

Table of Content

PART ONE: THE BASICS OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Definition

Cognitive Psychology and Related Disciplines/Theories

History of Cognitive Psychology

Founding Figures and Their Core Ideas

Thinking like a Cognitive Psychologist

Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Running Themes

PART TWO: COURSE COMPANION TO THE CURRICULUM

Visual Processing/Perception

Object Recognition

Speech/Word Recognition

Attention

Introduction to Memory, the Mulitstore Model, Encoding and Retrieval

Working Memory Model

Episodic and Semantic Memory

Learning and Memory

Speech Perception and Reading

Language Comprehension

Language (Speech) Production

Problem-Solving

Judgements and Decision Making

Reasoning and Deduction

PART THREE: STUDY AND REVISION SKILLS – In Collaboration with David Mc Ilroy

Introduction

How to Get the most out of Your Lectures

How to Make the Most of Seminars

Essay Writing Tips

Revision Hints and Tips

Exam Tips

Tips on Interpreting Essay and Exam Questions

Summary

About the author

Carol Brown is a lecturer in psychology at Oxford College of Further Education