Originally published in 1980, this title was designed to present key topics in cognitive psychology to university and college students in a way that drew out the main ideas behind those topics, this book also shows how these ideas were likely to develop over the following years.

Guy Claxton is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Education at the University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester. His research and publications focus on the varieties of non-conscious and non-intellectual intelligence, and practical methods of enhancing such intelligence in educational, therapeutic and spiritual contexts. Recent books include The Learning Power Approach, Intelligence in the Flesh and Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education.

1. Cognitive Psychology: A Suitable Case for What Sort of Treatment? Guy Claxton 2. Patterns and Action: Cognitive Mechanisms are Content-Specific D. Alan Allport 3. Actions: The Mechanisms of Motor Control Nigel Harvey and Kerry Greer 4. Attention and Performance D. Alan Allport 5. Developing the Concept of Working Memory Graham J. Hitch 6. Remembering and Understanding Guy Claxton 7. Psycholinguistics: Cognitive Aspects of Human Communication David W. Green 8. Thinking: Experiential and Information Processing Approaches Jonathan St B. T. Evans 9. Cross-cultural Perspectives on Cognition H. Valerie Curran. Index.