An introduction to applied cognitive psychology.

Previous edition: published as by Anthony Esgate and David Groome with Kevin Baker and others. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a student friendly review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories and models to real-world scenarios. The authors approach cognitive psychology by looking at how people use basic cognitive skills in everyday environments. In this way, they explore how people use their knowledge to influence their behaviour in life, and throw light on the inter-relationships between each part of the cognitive system. The central areas of visual perception, attention, memory, language, thinking, decision making and human performa.

Cover; An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The despicable Dr Fischer's bomb party; The Monty Hall problem; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; FIGURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction to applied cognitive psychology; 1.1 APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 1.2 EARLY COGNITIVE RESEARCH; 1.3 POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS IN APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 1.4 LABORATORY VERSUS FIELD EXPERIMENTS; 1.5 THE AIMS OF APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 1.6 ABOUT THIS BOOK; 2 Memory improvement; 2.1 INTRODUCTION2.2 ORGANISING AND SPACING OF LEARNING SESSIONS2.3 MEANING, ORGANISATION AND IMAGERY AS LEARNING STRATEGIES; 2.4 MNEMONICS; Mnemonic strategies; Expert mnemonists; 2.5 RETRIEVAL AND RETRIEVAL CUES; 2.6 RETRIEVAL PRACTICE AND DISUSE; 2.7 RETRIEVAL-INDUCED FORGETTING; 2.8 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF DISUSE AND RETRIEVAL INHIBITION; 2.9 RETRIEVAL STRENGTH, STORAGE STRENGTH AND METAMEMORY; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING; 3 Everyday memory; 3.1 ...