Approaches to Cognition : Contrasts and Controversies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind -- Cognition and the Problem of Knowledge -- Descartes and Native Cognitions -- Kant and the Categories -- Cognition and Conventionalism -- Back to the Armchair? -- 2. The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century -- The 1940s: Information, Communication, Cybernetics -- The 1950s: Information Theory, Infor mation Flow, Information Processing -- The 1960s: Information Processing or Cogni tive Psychology -- The 1970s: Cognitive Psychology Institutionalized -- Cognitive Psychology and Learning Textbooks -- Summary -- References -- 3. The Information Processing Approach to Cognition -- Five Assumptions of Information Processing -- Relations to Other Views of Cognition -- References -- 4. Why I Am Not A Cognitive Psychologist -- References -- 5. Bringing Cognition and Creativity into the Behavioral Laboratory -- Creativity -- Sources of Novelty -- Measures of Mind -- Self-Concept -- Conclusions -- References -- 6. Understanding Animal Cognition -- A Short Hist ory of Cognitive Theory in Animal Psychology -- Modern Radical Behaviorism and its Critique of Cognitive Psychology -- A Sample of Issue s in Animal Cognition -- An Analysis of the Radical Behaviorist/Cognitivist Conflict by Example: "Self-Awareness" in Animals -- Comparative Animal Cognition -- Summary -- References -- 7. J. J. Gibson's Ecological Theory of Information Pickup: Cognition From the Ground Up -- Introduction -- The Theory of Information Pickup -- Perception and Cognition -- References -- 8. From Gestalt to Neo-Gestalt -- Phenomena -- Principles -- Theory -- Methodology -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Cognitive Intervention in Perceptual Processing.

The Illusory-Contour Phenomenon -- The Sensory Theory: Contrast -- Critique of the Sensory Theory -- An Outline of a Problem-Solving Theory -- Final Remarks -- References -- 10. Toward a Computational Neuropsychol ogy of High-Level Vision -- The Computational Approach -- The Cognitive Psychology Approach -- Neuropsychological Approaches -- Combining the Approaches -- Some Examples of a Computational Neuropsychology of High-Level Vision -- Conclusions -- References -- 11. Cognitive Neuropsychology -- Historical Perspective -- Visuospatial Processing -- Memory -- Language -- Conclusion: Caveats and Potential -- References -- 12. Putting Cognitive Psychology to Work: Examples from Computer System Design -- Cognitive Psychology and Application: Past and Present -- The Past -- The Present -- Cognitive Theory Meets Practical Problems -- Content Relevant Domains -- Cognitive Psychology in the Field -- Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- 13. A Coordination of Differences: Behaviorism, Mentalism, and the Foundations of Psychology -- The Conflict Between Cognitivism and Behaviorism -- Getting fr om Folk Psychology to Psychological Science -- References -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.

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.

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