Cognition

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos

SCOPE: Cognitive psychology may be defined as the study of behavior of knowing or thought. Psychologists study the processes by which objects are recognized, remembered, and imagined. ( Kazdin, Encyclopedia of Psychology) They access the how and why individuals think and behave. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library. Subjects covered include conditioning, language and thought, perception, learning, and intelligence. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with American poetry are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Intellect
Intelligence
Cognition
Attribution (Social Psychology)
Cognition and culture
Selectivity (psychology)
Perception
Concepts
Consciousness
Language and culture
Thought and thinking

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library. 

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF BF 31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology
REF QP 360.5.C643 1995 The Cognitive Neurosciences
REF BF 31.C66 1994 Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology 
REF BF 431.E59 1994 Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence 
REF BF 311.M556 1999 The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Allee, Verna. The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Boston, Mass: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.

Ault, Ruth L. Childrens Cognitive Development. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 1983.

Barber, Paul J. Applied Cognitive Psychology: An Information-Processing Framework.
New York: Methuen, 1988.

Calvin, William H. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Edelman, Gerald M. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.

Eysenck, H.J. Intelligence: A New Look. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

Flannery, Daniele D. Applying Cognitive Learning Theory to Adult Learning. San 
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

Green, David W. Cognitive Science: An Introduction. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell
Publishers, 1996.

Neisser, Ulric. The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures. 
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1998.

Pfeifer, Rolf. Understanding Intelligence. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Reber, Arthur S. Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive 
Unconscious. New York: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Slezak, Peter. Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Theories, Eexperiments, and Foundations. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp; 1995.

Sternberg, Robert J. International Handbook of Intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of cognition are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

American Journal of Psychology Journal of Psychology Psychology Today Psychological Reports

VIDEOS 

Discovering Psychology Program 25-26 BF 131.D55X 2001 
Secrets of the Mind RC 351.S43 2001

Updated 03/30/2007