Cognitive Psychology: New Directions

by Guy Claxton (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1980, this title was designed to present key topics in cognitive psychology to university and college students in a way that drew out the main ideas behind those topics, this book also shows how these ideas were likely to develop over the following years. Its special characteristics are its efforts to anticipate the most fruitful lines of development and to integrate a number of different authors’ opinions about where the strengths and weaknesses of cognitive psychology lie. At the time the contributors were in the main younger lecturers in cognitive psychology who were, through their own research, actively engaged in bringing new directions into being.

The volume will still be of interest to cognitive psychologists in general who wish to reflect on what the field was, and who are concerned about the conceptual and methodological growth points in the discipline. In addition to chapters with familiar headings, such as attention, remembering and problem-solving, the book also contains contributions on cross-cultural cognition and on action, as well as two complementary overviews of cognitive psychology as a whole. Today it can be read in its historical context

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032950198
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/06/2025
Series:	Psychology Revivals
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Guy Claxton is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Education at the University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester. His research and publications focus on the varieties of non-conscious and non-intellectual intelligence, and practical methods of enhancing such intelligence in educational, therapeutic and spiritual contexts. Recent books include The Learning Power Approach, Intelligence in the Flesh and Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education.

Table of Contents

1. Cognitive Psychology: A Suitable Case for What Sort of Treatment? Guy Claxton 2. Patterns and Action: Cognitive Mechanisms are Content-Specific D. Alan Allport 3. Actions: The Mechanisms of Motor Control Nigel Harvey and Kerry Greer 4. Attention and Performance D. Alan Allport 5. Developing the Concept of Working Memory Graham J. Hitch 6. Remembering and Understanding Guy Claxton 7. Psycholinguistics: Cognitive Aspects of Human Communication David W. Green 8. Thinking: Experiential and Information Processing Approaches Jonathan St B. T. Evans 9. Cross-cultural Perspectives on Cognition H. Valerie Curran. Index.