Table of Contents

Part 1 Knowledge in mind: mind acknowledged; encoding general knowledge; dual encoding and imagery; symbol processing architectures - production systems; non symbolic architectures - connectionism. Part 2 Memory dynamics and the accumulation of knowledge: accumulative memory; accumulative memory - developmental perspectives; cognition and affect. Part 3 Acquiring and manipulating knowledge: management of text comprehension; evaluating and manipulating knowledge. Part 4 Knowledge in minds: social cognition; cultural transmission of knowledge - individual assimilation; cultural transmission of knowledge - historical assimilation; evolutionary constraints and the modern mind.

Reviews

This is a fascinating book, quite unlike anything else in the textbook literature of cognitive psychology. It does what very few other texts attempt: to set the study of cognition in its wider context. In doing so it raises issues which are otherwise liable to be skirted round, and brings to readers ideas and information which they would probably never have encountered. - K.I. Manktelow, University of Wolverhampton

This is a well written book covering much ground not usually touched on by texts in cognitive psychology. It is also well aimed at final year psychology students, and should be of interest, as a wide ranging background survey, to postgraduate students of cognitive psychology and cognitive science. - David Over, University of Sunderland