Cognitive Psychology and its Implications | John Anderson | I bought it for a class, but at least...

Cognitive Psychology and its Implications | John Anderson | Very dry, like the desert

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Cognitive Psycholo...

	Cognitive Psychology and its Implications John Anderson Worth Publishers, 2004 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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An acclaimed text offering a systematic and accessible presentation of the theoretical foundations of higher mental processes. Addressing both the information processing and the cognitive neuroscience approaches to the field, the book clearly demonstrates knowledge representation as the central issue around which cognitive psychology is organized. The new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout.

I bought it for a class, but at least I could follow it.

Nothing much to say except I had to buy this book for class and it was really easy to follow. It's not an intriguing novel or anything, but it gets the job done and the concepts are not hard to find or understand.

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Very dry, like the desert

The main objective of the text is to advance an information processing approach to mind in conjunction with functional neuroscience. With that in mind, one shouldn't expect a historical treatment of the field in this text. Anderson is an excellent author, and he makes his points clear (if somewhat over-simplified). CP provides anyone interested in human learning and cognition, either from a strictly theoretical standpoint or a practical standpoint, an excellent resource for thinking about the nature and complexity of what we do when we think (in the broadest sense of the word). The chapter on problem solving is particularly interesting and will propel one to reconsider the significance of our descriptions of things that exist. See also "functional fixedness"

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