Cognitive Psychology

Michael W. Eysenck is Emeritus Professor at the University of Roehampton and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published 62 books and approximately 170 articles and book chapters. He has written numerous textbooks on cognitive psychology and his main research area is concerned with the relationship between anxiety and cognition. David Groome was Senior Academic and Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Westminster, London. He retired in 2011, but he continues to write and he has authored or co-authored twelve psychology books. His research interests mainly involve cognition and memory, especially memory suppression and the effects of mood disorders on cognition. In 2009 he was awarded the BPS Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology. His hobbies include tennis, travel, dogs, and music. In his spare time he is a keen guitarist, and is still waiting for his big break as a rock star.

Chapter 1: An introduction to classic studies in cognitive psychology - Michael Eysenck and David Groome
Chapter 2: Attention: Beyond Cherry’s (1953) cocktail party problem - Michael Eysenck
Chapter 3: Perception: Beyond Gibson’s (1950) direct perception - Vicki Bruce & Yoav Tadmor
Chapter 4: Computational approaches to perception: Beyond Marr’s (1982) computational approach to vision - George Mather
Chapter 5: Perception and action: Beyond Goodale and Milner’s (1992) separate visual pathways - Glyn Humphreys
Chapter 6: Attention: Beyond Stroop’s (1935) colour–word interference phenomenon - Colin MacLeod
Chapter 7: Amnesia: Beyond Scoville and Milner’s (1957) research on HM - Howard Eichenbaum
Chapter 8: Working memory: Beyond Baddeley and Hitch’s (1974) Working Memory - Robert Logie
Chapter 9: Memory systems: Beyond Tulving’s (1972) episodic and semantic memory - Michael Eysenck & David Groome
Chapter 10: Encoding and retrieval: Beyond Tulving and Thomson’s (1973) encoding specificity principle - James Nairne
Chapter 11: Human problem solving: Beyond Newell, Shaw, & Simon’s (1958) theory of human problem solving - Fernand Gobet & Peter Lane
Chapter 12: Heuristics and biases: Beyond Tversky and Kahneman’s (1974) Judgment under uncertainty - Klaus Fiedler & Momme von Sydow
Chapter 13: Decision making under risk: Beyond Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) prospect theory - Ben Newell
Chapter 14: Language: Beyond Chomsky’s (1957) syntactic structures - Trevor Harley and Siobhan MacAndrew
Chapter 15: Cognitive neuropsychology of language: Beyond Marshall and Newcombe’s (1973) patterns of paralexia - Max Coltheart