Changes in cognition do not cease when we reach adulthood. As we get older, we continue to learn more things, but human cognitive abili...

Can people recognize patterns in mental images in the same way that they rec- ognize patterns in things they actually see? In an experime...

Visual Imagery Most of the research on mental imagery has involved visual imagery, and this will be the principal focus of this chapte...

■ Problem solving is goal-directed behavior that often involves set- ting subgoals to enable the application of operators. ■ P...

One might think that the memory advantage shown by experts is just a working- memory advantage, but research has shown that their advan...

Successful problem solving depends on representing problems in such a way that appropriate operators can be seen to apply. We have anal...

Scientists can be subject to a con- firmation bias. For instance, louis pasteur was involved in a major debate with other scientists abou...