
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation
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Key Features
- Volume 58 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
- An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science
- Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
Readership
Researchers and students in cognitive psychology
Table of Contents
Series Editor
Contributors
Chapter One. Learning Along With Others
1 Learning within a Community of Learners
2 Innovation Propagation in a One-dimensional Problem Space
3 Collective Learning in Higher-dimensional Problem Spaces
4 Collective Search in a Problem Space with Interactions among Solution Elements
5 Limitations, Implications, and Conclusions
References
Chapter Two. Space, Time, and Story
1 Introduction: Life, Perception, and Stories
2 Perceiving the Events of Life
3 Telling the Events of Life: Word, Diagram, Gesture
4 Spraction: Space, Action, Abstraction
References
Chapter Three. The Cognition of Spatial Cognition: Domain-General within Domain-specific
1 Spatial Cognition: Exploring the Domain-general in the Domain-specific
2 Spatial Cognition and Attention
3 Memory and Spatial Cognition
4 Representing Spatial Information: Embodiment
5 The Cognition of Spatial Cognition
References
Chapter Four. Perceptual Learning, Cognition, and Expertise
1 Introduction
2 Perceptual Learning Effects
3 Perceptual Learning in Mathematics: An Example
4 Perception, Cognition, and Learning
5 Perceptual Learning and Instruction
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter Five. Causation, Touch, and the Perception of Force
1 Introduction
2 Force-based Accounts of Causation
3 Grounding Forces in the Sense of Touch
4 Evidence for a Force-based View of Causation from Work on the Perception of Causation
5 The Sense of Force in Causal Perception and Induction
6 The Feeling of Causation in the Absence of Mechanism: A Dual Process Approach
7 Potential Problems for a Force-based View of Causation
8 Conclusions
References
Chapter Six. Categorization as Causal Explanation
1 Introductory Comments
2 Previous Accounts of Categorization
3 The Present Model
4 Tests of the Predictions
5 Placing the Present Account in the Literature
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter Seven. Individual Differences in Intelligence and Working Memory
1 Introduction
2 Models of Intelligence
3 Interpretation of the General Factor
4 Models of Working Memory Capacity
5 Toward a Unified Model
6 Conclusion
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 296
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: January 21, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780124072497
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Brian Ross

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