Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-488) and indexes.

Part I. Introduction. 1. Cognitive Psychology: Definitions, Roots, and Metaphors. Part II. Perception. 2. Attention and Object Recognition. Part III Memory. 3. Memory as Storage. 4. Memory as Recomputation and Correspondence. Part IV. Organization of Knowledge. 5. The Structure of Knowledge: A Symbolic Approach. 6. The Structure of Knowledge: A Connectionist Approach. 7. The Structure of Language. 8. Cognitive Processes In Speech and Language Perception. 9. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development. 10. Reasoning, Concept Formation, And Conceptual Structure. 11. Concepts and Categorie. 12. Problem Solving.

Provides coverage of the core areas of cognitive psychology, including perception, memory, language, pattern recognition, and thinking. The book relates cognitive psychology to students' experience and provides a solid foundation for later studies in psychology or in related fields.