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Exploring the Science of the Mind


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Part I: The Foundations of Cognitive Psychology

Chapter 1: The Science of the Mind
Research Methods: Testable hypotheses
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Cognitive Psychology and Law
Chapter 2: The Neural Basis for Cognition
Research Methods: Control groups
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Detecting Lies

Part II: Learning about the World Around Us

Chapter 3: Recognizing Objects in the World
Research Methods: Dealing with Confounds
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Cross-Race Identification
Chapter 4: Paying Attention
Research Methods: The power of random assignment
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: What do eyewitnesses pay attention to?

Part III: Memory

Chapter 5: The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System
Research Methods: Replication
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: The videorecorder view
Chapter 6: Interconnections between Acquisition and Retrieval
Research Methods: Double dissociations
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Unconscious Transference?
Chapter 7: Remembering Complex Events
Research Methods: External validity
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Jury Memory?

Part IV: Knowledge

Chapter 8: Associative Theories of Long-Term Memory
Research Methods: Chronometric studies
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: The Cognitive Interview
Chapter 9: Conceptions and Generic Knowledge
Research Methods: Limits on generalization
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Defining Legal Concepts
Chapter 10: Language
Research Methods: Methodological opportunism
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Judicial Instructions
Chapter 11: Visual Knowledge
Research Methods: Expectations, motivations and demand
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Lineups

Part V: Thinking

Chapter 12: Judgment: Drawing Conclusions from Evidence
Research Methods: Systematic data collection
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Juries' Judgment
Chapter 13: Reasoning: Thinking through the Implications of What You Know
Research Methods: The community of scientists
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Confirmation Bias
Chapter 14: Solving Problems
Research Methods: Defining the dependent variable
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Problem-solving in the Courts
Chapter 15: Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought
Research Methods: Introspection
Cognitive Psychology and the Law: Unconscious Thinking