Contents Foreword A Personal View Of 20Th-Century Psychology: With An Eye To The 21St Century Preface Note Conciousness And The 21St Century Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy Is It a Clearly Defined Phenomenon? Evidence The Rebirth of Consciousness in Science Contrastive Analysis Treating Consciousness as a Variable What's Different About Psychological Knowledge Consciousness is Humanizing: The Example of Inner Speech Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings Ready or Not, Here Comes the New Millenium What Thin Partitions... Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Will the Mind Become the Brain in the 21st Century? Fact: The First Axiom of Consciousness and Thought Prehistory of C: The Late 20th Century The Beginning of the End? The 2018 TeleCongress Aristotle to the Rescue Fact: The First Axiom of C and T Author's Note Brain And Mind In The 21St Century Infusing Cognitive Neuroscience into Cognitive Psychology Constraints from Cognitive Neuroscience: A Case Study What's Special About Cognitive Neuroscience Data? Directness of Dissociations Multiple Dependent Measures and Their Direct Functional Interpretation Does Cognitive Neuroscience Offer a New Way to Look at Cognition? Content Differences in Perception and Memory Content Effects in Categorization Planning Concluding Comments
Imaging the Future Extrapolating the Current Scene Anatomy Comparative Anatomy Circuitry Circuitry and Reading Plasticity Dynamic Brains Learning Recovery of Function School Subjects Individuality Genetic Level Neuroimaging Phenotypic Structure Sociopathy Theory of Consciousness What to Do with Your Own Personal Brain Scanner The Man Who Wanted to Speak with the Dead Bevis, Butthead, Bakunin, and CBS, PBS, and DSP Eight Things That You Can Do with Your PBS Mental Checkups: Very Short, Short, Medium, and Long-Term Scales Very Short: Am I Falling Asleep at the Wheel? Short: Is This a Bad Hair Day? Medium: I'm Recovering from a Head Injury Am I Ready to Go Back to Work? Long-Term: Am I Getting Senile? Improving Basic Mental Functions and Learning How Do I Concentrate Better? Can I Learn Faster? Enhancing Performance How Do I Make That Perfect Golf Stroke? Entertainment Can I Play a Video Game with This Thing? Is All This California Dreaming? The Deep and Surface Structure of Memory and Conscious Learning: Toward a 21st-Century Model
The Deep and Surface Structure of Memory Deep Structure The Surface Structure Conscious Learning as Recoding Through Self' Organization Elements of Acquisition Reinforcement--A Redefinition The Big Picture: What The Relation Between the Organization of Learning and Memory and That of the B... Mathematical Holography in Brain Function and Cosmology The Brain-Mind Relation Conclusion Appendix What Are Brains For? From Associationism to Circuitry The Neuron as a Computational Unit Possible Nature of Cellular Specializations The Overarching Nightmare: The Answer Is in the Spike Pattern Psychology (Memory, Theory, And Congnition) In The 21St Century The Future of Cognitive Psychology? A Look Backward in Time A Look Forward in Time Conclusions The Memory Trainers Gay Snodgrass Preface Training the Memory Trainers--A View from the Past History of Memory Research Systems vs. Processes Implicit vs. Explicit Memory Why Two Systems for Episodic Memory? How Many Types of Memory Are There? Implications for the Development of a Memory Test Battery and Memory Training The Memory Battery Short-Term or Working Memory (Generally Considered to Be Basic to All Other Memory Skills) Episodic Long-Term Memory
Semantic Long-Term Memory Implicit Long-Term Justification of the Memory Battery What Can Be Trained? On Future Psychological Categories Technical Discoveries The End of Infant Determinism Classification The Bases for Classification Contemporary Features Past Qualities Immediate Consequences Long-Term Consequences Formal Similarities Combining Criteria Some Examples Extremes Weighting Features Summary The Goal of Theory in Experimental Psychology Aesthetics and Utility in Science Theories in Classical Physics The Discovery vs. the Invention of Theories What to Measure? Theories in Psychology Superficial Differences Between Physical and Psychological Theories The Importance of Evolution and Learning for Psychological Theories The Complexity of a "Simple" Psychological Task The Indirect Use of Precise Theories Theories Are Inherently Incomplete or Imprecise The Futility of Statistical Tests A Criterion for Evaluating Theories The Necessity of Theory Looking Ahead How to Prepare for Our Future of Totally Unexpected Opportunities The Future of Psychology
The Scientific Revolution Ordeal by Quackery The Mind-Body Continuum Man Is a Biosocial Animal: Genetics The Biological Basis of Personality and Intellect Conclusions THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND Mind Sciences and the 21st Century The Most Humanly Important Topic of All: Consciousness Looking at Brains in the 21st Century Psychology ±100 Years The Future of Mind Sciences About The Authors Name Index Subject Index Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.