Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Advances in Research and Theory

Edited by
  • Gordon Bower, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A.

Audience
Researchers and graduate students in cognitive science and neuroscience.

Hardbound, 334 Pages

Published: October 1991

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-543327-3

Reviews

  • "Indispensable to all psychologists interested in the experimental study of the phenomena of learning and motivation."
    --BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY


    "Provides a diverse sampling of research being conducted throughout the area of learning."
    --CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

Contents

  • L.W. Barsalou, Deriving Categories to Achieve Goals.J.P. Clapper and G.H. Bower, Learning and Applying Category Knowledge in Unsupervised Domains.B. Tversky, Spatial Mental Models.T.P. McNamara, Memory's View of Space.E.F. Loftus, Made in Memory: Distortions in Recollection after Misleading Information.M.A. Gernsbacher, Cognitive Processes and Mechanisms in Language Comprehension: The Structure Building Framework.J.E.R. Staddon and J.J. Higa, Temporal Learning.P.R. Killeen, Behavior's Time.Index.Contents of Recent Volumes.

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