Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank
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For
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Cognition
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Seventh Edition
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Gabriel A. Radvansky,
Mark H. Ashcraft,
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology
Chapter Context
Outcome-based Outline
1.1 Analyze the mental processes behind our thoughts
1.2 Differentiate memory and cognition
1.3 Recount the history of cognitive psychology
1.4 Interpret how human problem solving involves planning that guides
behavior
1.5 Compare human information processing to the operations of a computer
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1.6 Explain the mental processes that take place while doing a task
1.7 Describe the seven themes of cognition
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Discussion Question Bank
1.1 Thinking about Thinking
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1.2 Memory and Cognition Defined
1.3 An Introductory History of Cognitive Psychology
1.4 Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing
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1.5 Measuring Information Processes
1.6 The Standard Theory and Cognitive Science
1.7 Themes
Research Assignments
Early Research in Cognitive Psychology
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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2.1 Examine the neurological connection of cognition
2.2 Describe the functionality of neurons
2.3 Identify the neural anatomy of the human brain
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2.4 Describe the four ways of understanding the human brain
2.5 Summarize connectionism as a computer-based method in cognitive
science
Discussion Question Bank
2.1 The Brain and Cognition Together
2.2 Basic Neurology
2.3 Important Brain Structures and Function
2.4 Neuroimaging
2.5 Connectionism
Research Assignments
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Brain Lobes and Cognitive Functioning
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Outcome-based Outline
3.1 Explain the process of relating mental experience to physical reality
3.2 Distinguish the processes of visual sensation and perception
3.3 Evaluate the process by which we identify patterns and objects
3.4 Explore ideas about how what we know influences what we see
3.5 Summarize the science of object recognition and agnosia
3.6 Describe the science of hearing
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Discussion Question Bank
3.1 Psychophysics
3.2 Visual Sensation and Perception
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3.3 Pattern Recognition
3.4 Top-Down Processing
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3.5 Object Recognition and Agnosia
3.6 Auditory Sensation and Perception
Research Assignments
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Context in Sensation and Perception
Lecture Suggestions
Chapter 4: Attention
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Outcome-based Outline
4.1 Identify the different meanings of attention
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4.2 Explain the processes of input attention
4.3 Contrast controlled attention with voluntary attention
4.4 Compare automatic processing with conscious processing
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Discussion Question Bank
4.1 Multiple Meanings of Attention
4.2 Basic Input Attentional Processes
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4.3 Controlled, Voluntary Attention
4.4 Attention as a Mental Resource
Research Assignments
Multitasking
Lecture Suggestions
Chapter 5: Short-Term Working Memory
Chapter Context
Outcome-based Outline
5.1 Explain how short-term memory can be a bottleneck in the memory traffic
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of the brain
5.2 Summarize the process through which short-term memory is recalled
5.3 Explain how working memory functions
5.4 Identify two ways to assess working memory
5.5 Evaluate the centrality of working memory in the overall cognitive
functions
Discussion Question Bank
5.1 A Limited-Capacity Bottleneck
5.2 Short-Term Memory Retrieval
5.3 Working Memory
5.4 Assessing Working Memory
5.5 Working Memory and Cognition
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Research Assignments
Working Memory Tasks
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Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering
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Chapter Context
Outcome-based Outline
6.1 Analyze the factors that contribute to how well a person will remember
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something
6.2 Explain the process by which information is stored in episodic memory
6.3 Describe different ways that a person can improve his or her episodic
memory
6.4 Explain how context plays a role in the storage and retrieval of episodic
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memories
6.5 Identify the influence the levels of mental representations have on
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memory
6.6 Characterize phenomena that have been uncovered by research on
autobiographical memory
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6.7 Describe how memory can be oriented toward the future
Discussion Question Bank
6.1 Preliminary Issues
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6.2 Storing Information in Episodic Memory
6.3 Boosting Episodic Information
6.4 Context
6.5 Facts and Situation Models
6.6 Autobiographical Memories
6.7 Memory for the Future
Research Assignments
Mnemonics
Lecture Suggestions
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