Approaches to Cognition: Contrasts and Controversies (Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138641014 ISBN 13: 9781138641013

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

To the vast majority of academic psychologists in the 1980s, the study of cognition referred to that area of psychology known as ‘cognitive psychology’. The major basis of this area had been the computer metaphor with its accompanying notion of the individual as an information-processing system. Yet within the field the study of cognition is much broader and has a history that reaches into antiquity, whereas ‘cognitive psychology’ as information-processing psychology had only recently become the standard bearer of cognitive studies.

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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Terry J. Knapp, Lynn C. Robertson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138641014
• ISBN 13: 9781138641013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Knapp Terry J., Robertson Lynn C.