PREFACE 1 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD A BRIEF HISTORY OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY THE COGNITIVE RENAISSANCE CURRENT STATUS:COM PUTER MODEL AND COGNITIVE NEURSOCIENCE LIMITATIONS OF MECHANISM OVERVIEW OF HISTORY THE IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY SUMMARY 2 Perceptual Processes THE SSENSORY REGLSTER PATTERN RECOGNTION THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF PATTERN PECOGNITION SUMMARY 3 Attention 4 Shor-Term,Working Memory 5 Long-Term Meory 6 Explicit and Implicit Memory 7 Memory Failure:Forgetting and False Memory 8 Metacognition 9 Knowledge:The Structure of Concepts 10 Language:Basic Concepts 11 Language:Comprehension 12 Reasoning and Problem Slolving 13 Cognition,Emotion,and Memory